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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    and fugitive chills and slight anexoria, which pre- cede what is called a comnion cold or an ephemeral pyrexia, to the deep and general paralyzation of all the functions, which is the prelude to severe typhus, or the severer plague ; in which last, not unfrequently, the; stage of reaction never arrives,—the primary cinean- tissement terminating forthwith in dissolution, before the chance of a fever is left for the patient. In the remittent endemic of the Tropics, the suddenness and severity of the primary impression are often very remarkable;—the sufferers, who were a short time previously in the best of health, having com.pared thef first invasion of the fever to the being knocked down by a blow. The history of the plague is still more pregnant with such examples of the primary violence of the attack. All the above variety of the precursory phenomena appears to be essentially owing to the slow- ness or rapidity, joined to the extent to which the mus- cular power of the whole or the chief part of the body is, at the time, diminished. That it is so diminished or repressed in all in these instances, cannot otherwise be concluded ; and yet the weight and volume of the solids and fluids may remain the same. As a further corroboration, it is found, that the muscles, after death, of those persoris, who have been struck off by these sudden and primary invasions, do not contract to the application of stimuli as those of others dying, under different circumstances, do ; their blood also is then generally found fluid and uncoagulated, as may be