Clinical illustrations of fever. Comprising a report of the cases treated at the London Fever Hospital, 1828-1829 / [Alexander Tweedie].

  • Tweedie, Alexander, 1794-1884.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Clinical illustrations of fever. Comprising a report of the cases treated at the London Fever Hospital, 1828-1829 / [Alexander Tweedie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a termination by proper measures, or subsides spontaneously. When once the torch is lighted, when the circu- lation is quickened, and. the blood consequently impelled with greater velocity through organs whose functions are already disordered, the tran- sition from excitement. to inflammation is often rapid. When there is a predisposition to disease in any part, the febrile action is most. likely to prey on the organ so predisposed, and the period of the fever at which the inflammation comes on, as well as its intensity, will. depend.on a variety of concurrent circumstances in each in- dividual case. | : In one instance, we shall find the local affection in the brain; in a second, in the organs of respi- ration; ina third, in some of the abdominal vis- cera, most frequently in typhus fever, in the mu- cous membrane of the intestines; and it not un- frequently happens that more than one of those organs is simultaneously inflamed. The inflammation which supervenes in the pro- gress of fever, however, is of a less intense kind than in the ordinary phlegmasiz, I do not. pre- tend to explain satisfactorily to what this modify- ing circumstance in fever is attributable, but I am sure’ that the: principle. is correct; and he who treats complicated fever with the same activity as