Practical observations on continued fever, especially that form at present existing as an epidemic : with some remarks on the most efficient plans for its suppression / by Robert Graham.

  • Graham, Robert, 1786-1845.
Date:
1818
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    extremely difficult to distinguish these two states. Perhaps it is not always of much consequence, as the treatment is often the same, though I believe congestion may more frequently be left with greater safety in Nature's hands. Conges- tion in the head may, in many cases, be distin- guished from inflammation there, by the state of the pulse, which in the former is generally slow, in the latter, when uncombined, I believe, always quick. The head, the spinal canal, the thorax, the abdomen, and the external cellular substance, have each been the seat of inflamma- tion, in the fever of which I am treating, and I have seen it in all these situations, except in the abdomen, and perhaps also in the spine, prove fatal. It is the presence of these inflam- matory symptoms, which I have found chiefly to indicate danger, and it is to their obstinacy, that I have almost in every case of death to attribute the fatal issue. I must, therefore, as faithfully, but as briefly as I can, state the appearances, which I have found them to assume. The symptoms which indicate inflammation of the brain, or its membranes, are related by all authors who treat of fever5 but here, as in other cases, I have to complain, that the descrip- tion is caricatured. In the present epidemic, I have found it to be that form of inflamma- tion, which, by much the most frequently,