This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...saying that it is not; for when a Physician is called to a patient labouring under fever, it is a matter of comparatively little moment to him what was its cause, unless it arose from a local evil which he can remove. Indeed, in many instances, it is impossible to discover the cause of fever; and in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...saying that it is not; for when a Physician is called to a patient labouring under fever, it is a matter of comparatively little moment to him what was its cause, unless it arose from a local evil which he can remove. Indeed, in many instances, it is impossible to discover the cause of fever; and in those circumstances, it is necessary to treat it according to the symptoms which are present, whatever those may be, without reference to the cause. Besides, if the difference of cause has such an effect in determining the nature of fever, how does it happen, when scarlatina or measles are raging, that in one we find the throat affected with simple cynanche tonsillaris, while another is affected with the worst kind of cynanche maligna? These are differences that ought never to occur in two children affected by contagion from the same individual, if they depended on the cause alone. These differences preclude also the possibility of applying the same curative means, with any hope of success, in two diseases arising from the same cause, but occurring in different con stitutions. They are of such frequent occurrence, that Imoit every medical author mentions them; and they may be every day met with in practice; so that it is unnecessary to give more examples in support of what has been advanced on this subject. The conclusions to be drawn from these premises are, that typhus is a disease added to a constitutional state which may occur either during a continuance of bad health, without fever, or may supervene to the attack of inflammatory fever, by reason of the energies of the system being exhausted; and thui specific contagions have no effect in producing particular forms of fever, as the facts on record distinctly show. Thus we find that the...
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