The nomenclature of diseases / drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The nomenclature of diseases / drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c. Malignant. Definition : The throat lends to slough ; the scarlet rash is scarcely, if at all, visible, petechia? are often seen on the surface, and the fever is of a low form. Note.—Scarlet fever occurs occasionally with- out any rash or sore throat being observed. 6. Dengue. Definition: An ephemeral continued fever or febricula, characterised byfrontal headache, and by severe pains in the limbs and trunk, and sometimes by an eruption, resembling that of measles, over the body ; occurring in the West Indies. 7. Typhus fever. Definition: A continued fever, characterised by great prostration, and a general, dusky, mottled rash, without specific lesion of the bowels. 8. Cerebro-spinal fever. Synonyms, Malignant purpuric fever; Epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis. Definition : A malignant epidemic fever attended by painful contraction of the muscles of the neck, and retraction of the head. In certain epidemics it is frequently accompanied by a profuse pur- puric eruption, and, occasionally, by secondary elfusions into certain joints. Lesions of the brain and spinal cord and their membranes are found on dissection. 9. Enteric fever. Synonym, Typhoid fever. Definition : A continued fever, characterised by the presence of rose-coloured spots, chiefly on the abdomen, and a tendency to diarrhœa, with specific lesion of the bowels. Enteric fever occurring in the child is often named Infantile remittent fever. Note.—Fevei'S symptomatic of worms, teeth- ing, or other sources of irritation should not be included under this head. 10. Relapsing fever. Definition : A continued fever of short duration, characterised by absence of eruption, and an abrupt relapse, occurring after an interval of about a week. 11. Simple continued fever. Definition: Continued fever having no specific character. 12. Febricula. Definition : ,S;iii[)lc fever, of not more than three or four days' duration.