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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    mortality of our own, as well as other fever hos- pitals, and is an evil not easily prevented. There is another description of cases which are not unfrequently received, viz., cases of neglected inflammation of some important organ, of which the fever is merely symptomatic. These cases are by no means easily discriminated from idiopathic fever, during the progress of which some organ has become inflamed; the obscurity arises from the impossibility in most instances of obtaining a correct history of the early symptoms; the diffi- culty in all cases of complicated fever, being to . trace out and determine, whether the fever is primary, or symptomatic of some local affection. The medical certificate, on the production of which a patient is received into the Fever Hospi- tal, simply requires. the attestation of a medical practitioner that the disease of the applicant is fever, and therefore, there is no protection against the admission of improper cases; and when those patients are once admitted, it is often impracti- cable to transfer them either to their former dwellings, or toa general hospital.