A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever : deduced from physiological analysis, and illustrated by critical remarks and practical observations / By James Black.

  • Black, James, 1788?-1867.
Date:
1826
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    TI-lE PRIMARY S I AGK. of the extent of the injury, which he is suffering in his own body. The difficulty still in a good measure remains, as we cannot bring the topical lesion of a limb in direct catenation with a morbid commotion or injury of these nerves, except through the circuitous medium of the sensorium commune ; and the known irritations and lesions of these nerves produce diseases of a totally different character from fever, such as chorea, hysteria, palpitatio, tetanus, &c. There is, however, another most important power in more immediate connection with the matter of our bodies, than either the brain or the nerves ; which power is coeval with the first rudiments of our identity, and adheres to the animal fabric, after the brain and nerves have been separated from tbe body or their powers annihilated, until it gives place only to chemical decomposition. Abstaining, as we formerly professed to do, from speculating on the exact or probable nature of this power ; it is sufficient to hold it as one of the ascertained principles of animal organization, without which there is no one property or structure of animalization performed, nor completed. It has received various names, all of which are more or less designative of its pro- perties ; for of its exact nature, the most eminent philosophers are as ignorant, as they are of the essential nature of gravitation. Of these properties of nature it also appears, that the one attached to animal matter,, is the better ascertained of the two. The mere eerti:-