A treatise on fever, or, Selections from a course of lectures on fever : being part of a course of theory and practice of medicine / delivered by Robert D. Lyons.

  • Lyons, Robert Spencer Dyer, 1826-1886.
Date:
1861
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    y o CHAP. V. VARIETIES OF SYKOCHAL FEVER. There is much difficulty in reducing to a common scale the various fevers recognis'd from time U> time under the head of Synochu. Grant, one of the ablest writers of the last century, considers the febris pitui- tosa, the synochus non putris, the febris liumoralis, the epialos, and the slow nervous fever of Huxham, to be the same disease. The synochal fever of his own day Grant describes as setting in some time in March, and lasting for a considerable period, commonly till after the summer solstice. He recognised as different varieties of this fever, the synochus simplex, which lasted only four, or at most seven days, and the febris typhodes, assodes, lyngodes, phricodes, ] »itui- tosa, and lypinea, all so called from their several characteristic symptoms. In reference to the treat- ment adopted by the physicians of that day, he says, — “ They followed nature and assisted her ; ” but he cites the somewhat caustic observation of an ancient physician, who remarked, “that a new treatment often turned an old fever into a new one.” Grant further makes the remark, that in 1700, till the wann weather set in, in the beginning of March, he did not hear of any slow nervous fevers ; lie con- sidered the fever, of which he then saw several cases, as having the same symptoms and course as the hemitritawe and trytaiophycc of the ancients, and