A sketch (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / by Robert Jackson, M.D.

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A sketch (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / by Robert Jackson, M.D. 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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    times, but they were comparatively rare. The symptoms were ordinarily moderate, the action of the vascular system preternaturally excited, but not inordinately. The skin was frequently tender, or sore to the touch, as if it had been bruised; it was almost always dry—not hot, but hotter than natural. Thirst was consider- able—not intense ; the tongue was foul, often white and slimy; sleep was disturbed by dreaming and wanderings of the fancy, like delirium; the action of the vascular system expanded gradually, and marks of crisis were perceivable about the seventh day ; sometimes the energies subsided about that period, the pulse graduall}^ losing force and expansion, the heat of the surface (particularly of the extremi- ties) diminishing, the blood appearing to stag- nate in the veinous extremities, presumptively in organs of spongy structure—lungs, liver, and sipleen, obviously on the skin, produced petchiae or lividness on the extremities: the skin was sometimes dry, sometimes dingy^ damp, and greasy. Sometimes, instead of crisis at a given period, or marks of commencing retrograde, and tendency to stagnation, the character of the disease assumed another form, proceeding under its new form, through a course of regular febrile development, to termination or change, accompanied, not unfrequently, with delirium, sometimes high and violent, oftener moderate, lively and cheerful. Crisis, or toi'mination, oc-