Researches anatomical and practical concerning fever, as connected with inflammation / By Thomas Beddoes.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
[1807?]
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Credit: Researches anatomical and practical concerning fever, as connected with inflammation / By Thomas Beddoes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quick, sometimes spasmodic, rather constricted pulse, anxious and quick respiration, extreme thirst, dry mouth, tongue with the roughness of -a file and fiery red, strong smelling urine, want of appetite, desire of acids, delirium, oppression of the chest combined with pain and irritated cough, so that in many cases the whole com- plaint might have been taken for a most violent catarrhal fever ; at times genuine inflammation of the lungs ; added to all this, the most exces- sive determination of blood to the head; entire sleeplessness, bruised feel ofthe limbs. The se- cond and third day, increase of all these symp- toms; higher fever; such lassitude that patients could scarcely stand upon theirlegs. Thence- forward aggravation of the complaint from ~hour to hour. Deafness, or. ringing in the ears ; red, protruded, weeping, inflamed eyes; tossing about of the body. In patients left to nature alone, and whom she did not rescue by a fa- vourable crisis, the most profound stupor fol- lowed; genuine inflammation of the brain; and on the 7th, 9th, or 10th day, death. ‘< How deceitful,” exclaims the author, ‘‘ the sudden failure of every power! How easy to imagine that we have before us a true putrid fever; but true putrid fever is rarely to be found in nature. And here there is nothing more than the consequence of the brain being strongly af- fected; which now, together with the whole nervous