Clinical illustrations of fever : comprising a report of the cases treated at the London fever hospital, 1828-1829 / by Alexander Tweedie.

  • Tweedie, Alexander, 1794-1884.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Clinical illustrations of fever : comprising a report of the cases treated at the London fever hospital, 1828-1829 / by Alexander Tweedie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. Preface CHAPTER I. Preliminary Observations CHAPTER H. Origin of Fever Hospitals—Origin of the London Fever Hospital— Object of the present Treatise—Table of the Numbers admitted into the Fever Hospital since its establishment—Statistical Ac- count of the Fevex in London . . . . . . 12 CHAPTER m. Period selected for the present Report—Table of the Monthly Ad- missions and Mortality of the Cases—Table of the comparative Ages and Mortality of Fever—Classification of Fever—Of the Cases of Simple Fever—Of Complicated Fever—Affections of the Brain in Fever—Affections of the Organs of Respiration in Fever—Abdominal Inflammation in Fever—'Of the State of the Spleen in Fever . . . . o . , . 19 CHAPTER IV. Of Typhus Fever—Simple Typhus—^Various Complications—In the Brain—In the Lungs—In the Intestines—State of the Mucous Membrane of the Intestines—Intestinal Ulceration—