Fever physiologically considered; considerations on yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, cholera, and sea-scurvy; also the questions of contagion, and the quarantine laws; with an address to the public, &c. on the popular treatment of cholera / By David M'Connell Reed.

  • Reed, David M'Connell, -1889.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Fever physiologically considered; considerations on yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, cholera, and sea-scurvy; also the questions of contagion, and the quarantine laws; with an address to the public, &c. on the popular treatment of cholera / By David M'Connell Reed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the greatness of the pain is caused from the distrac- tion of the nerves, which are more or less acutely sensible, as the part wherein it is seated is more or less nervose, and as those nerves are more or less distracted with their fluids. But those nerves can only be distracted when the vessels they compose are too much distended with blood; and they will be only too much distended with blood, whenever it divides faster than the excrements it parts with, can be flung off by the secretory emunctories, and, of consequence, will lodge in the minutest canals of those parts disposed to receive it, and excite an in- flammation, which, with the great heat and thirst that attends it, we call a fever of the inflammatory kind, in what part soever seated. And this appears most evidently in inflammatory fevers that attack the breast, especially the pleurisy, that the disease in the beginning, or at least a little after the invasion, is most commonly attended with the severest and most acute pain, which, in two or three days, some- what abates; that is, when some of the smallest vessels, that suffered the greatest distension, and consequently the greatest pain, are broke, the others relax, and, of consequence, the pain remits, which appears still more clearly from the spittles being mixed with streaks after the second or third day ; and what mightily adds to the strengthening of this opinion is, that the method of cure, or at least. that