A dissertation on the mixed fever, delivered June 30, 1789 : at a public examination for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, the medical professors, and the governors of the university at Cambridge in America / by William Pearson.

  • Pearson, William, 1768-1795.
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[1789]
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Credit: A dissertation on the mixed fever, delivered June 30, 1789 : at a public examination for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, the medical professors, and the governors of the university at Cambridge in America / by William Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C s J It feldom attacks fo brifkly or fuddenly as the inflam- matory fever, but begins with a wearincfs, a frequent inclination to yawn, an irregular fenfation of cold, ap- proaching to chiliinefs, a confufed pain in the head, naufea, thirft, and very often vomiting. The pulfe is not fo ftrong and full as in the genuine inflammatory fever, the remiflions are more evident, and permanent, and there is more moifture on the fkin : On the other hand, the naufea, pain of the praecordia and anxiety are greater than in the inflammatory fever, and there is moft commonly a bilious vomiting. The tongue has from the beginning a whitifh moift covering, which as the fever advances becomes dry and of a brown colour* which may alfo diftinguifh. it from the true inflammatory. The fymptoms vary at different feafons and in different patients ; fometimes they are iiritated with in- flammatory fymptoms, fometimes they are deprefled with the low nervous. Vogel fays the chara&eriftic marks of this fever are a rednefs of the face, a moifture of the fkin, and a great and frequent pulfe : This we may fuppofe to happen in patients where a pblcgi/ik diathefis prevails; but when it happens in hypochondriacal pa- tients, who have weak ftornachs-, the fymptoms are dif- ferent ; for in fuch, according to Bagliv'tus, the humours are more corrupted, the tongue grows black, the pulfe fmalt and the extremities cold, together with great anxi- As this fever, from its being contagious, attacks eonSitut ion, need we wender that it appears fo various