The physician's vade-mecum. Containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases. Accompanied by a select collection of formulae and a glossary of terms / by Robert Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1809
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Credit: The physician's vade-mecum. Containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases. Accompanied by a select collection of formulae and a glossary of terms / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENER Ae Febris intermittens, or > Intermittent fever. ——— remittens, — Remittent fever. -Typhus, —~- Nervous fever. Synocha, — Inflammatory fever. Febris hectica, — Hectic fever. INTERMITTENT FEVERS. Generic Character. Fevers consisting of paroxysms, or periods of fever 5 between each of which there is a distinct and perfect intermission from febrile symptoms, or an apyrexial period. A paroxysm consists of three stages: a cold, a hor, and a sweating stage. 1. The quotidian—having an interval of 24 hours. * Species. 11. The tertian 5 —- — — 48 hours. 111. The quartan 5 — — — 72 hours. SYMPTOMS. Of the cold stage.—Languor and sense of debility ;—listless- ness ;—yawning and stretching ;—an aversion to motion. a Re face and extremities become pale; the features shrink ; the bulk of every external part is diminished ; and the skin over the whole body appears constricted as if cold had been applied to it.—Sensibility is ‘greatly impaired ; the secretions and ex- cretions diminished ; the pulse small, frequent, and irregular 5 and the respiration short and anxious.—At length the patient himself feels a sensation of cold ; first arising in the back, and thence diffusing itself over different parts of the body ; though 4