On the treatment of hyperpyrexia : as illustrated in acute articular rheumatism by means of the external application of cold / by Wilson Fox.

  • Fox, Wilson, 1831-1887.
Date:
1871
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Credit: On the treatment of hyperpyrexia : as illustrated in acute articular rheumatism by means of the external application of cold / by Wilson Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PEEFACE. Although three of the cases narrated in this paper have already appeared in the Lancet, I am induced, by the importance of the subject to which they relate, to republish them in a separate form. By doing so I am able to present to the profession more complete details of their progress than I was able to do in a weekly journal; and for this reason I have appended the tables of the observations made on the temperature during the treatment by cold applications, and also during their later progress. These have been somewhat abbreviated by tlie omission of minor variations which occurred, but every impor- tant rise or fall has been noticed. Two charts have also been introduced, which Mr. Newington, one of the Physicians' Assistants of University College Hospital, has had the kindness to prepare for me, in order to give a connected view of the progress of the cases. I have further appended a table showing the effect of the im- mersion of the patients in the baths employed, in order to exhibit the rate at which the temperature was lowered by each bath. I have also republished the history of a case previously treated in the same manner, but where bleeding had been practised prior to the treatment by cold, when the temperature had already reached a fatal height. It has appeared to me that the comparison of the effects of treatment in this case with those observed in the others may not be uninstructive. / in.