A case of typhus or ship fever, with remarks / By Wm. Ingalls.

  • Ingalls, William, 1769-1851.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A case of typhus or ship fever, with remarks / By Wm. Ingalls. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MUSCULAR FIBRE THE SEAT OF TYPHUS. Logica definitio febris dari non potest. Von Hildenbrand, Neque etiam, ut cenceo, inflammationis. TV. 7. To the Editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Men of comprehensive minds, of deep research, and profound erudition, have failed to give a comprehensive and perfectly satis¬ factory definition of fever. Dr. Cullen, whose synopsis was, for a series of years, the standard work on ^nosology, acknowledges his inability to determine with precision the phenomena necessary to constitute fever, in a note on pyrexia, which runs thus “ Quod hie, et pluribus quse seq'uuntur locis, nobis forsitan vitio verti possit, quodammodo hie obiter excusare liceat. Ita, dici potest * pyrexias aliquando videri, quas nullus prsecesserat horror, et pyrexias in quibus neque pulsus frequentior, neque calor major, quam in sanis esse solet; characterem ideo datum neque verum, neque ubi- que adhibendum. Istiusmodi pyrexias, rarissime licet, aliquando videri negare nolo ; sed, in eharacteribus classium, ad species dig- noscendas adhibendis, ut singulse classis notse in unaquaque specie conspiciantur, haud necessarium videtur, et sufficit, si earum pier®- que in specie quavis adsint. u Character idoneus quisque, plurium notarum sive symptomatum concursum notare debet, et male quidem cum veteribus Yogelius calorem auctum solum, et recentiores Sylvius et Cel. Boerhaavius pulsuum velocitatem solarn, pro charactere pyrexi®, sive febris ut vocant, posuerunt. Certe, qui dicunt febrim adesse, etsi pulsus nihilo naturali frequentior sit, ex aliis quam velocitate pulsuum sig* nis febrem adesse judicant ; quod etiam plurium symptomatum notationem, in quovis charactere necessarium esse, ostendib