A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent.

  • Livezey, Abraham, 1821-1896.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    typhus gravior, in which the electrical state, or depression, becomes the most alarming feature of the case. As before remarked, these several modifications are greatly influenced by place, season, temperature, habits, etc.; hence thSir developments may greatly differ at dif- ferent times, and in various localities. Their intensity may, from these causes, be greatly modified. Some- times delirium may be general; at some other period ir- ritability of the stomach may be the most prominent symptom ; and in other cases and localities, stupor and other evidences of the electrical state may be most preva- lent. These several modifications, arising from the inci- dentals named, may be nosologically and nonsensically designated, Remittent, Bilious, Typhoid, Typhus, Yellow, Adynamic fever, etc., etc.; and yet it must be admitted that these several forms, with all their diversity and aggrava- tion of symptoms, are only modifications and aggravations of the phases of the type of all disease—intermittent fe- ver ; and the same fact is apparent in the widely differing forms and attack of scarlatina, but is it not self-evident that those several developments of scarlatina are only grades of that modification of the intermittent-type, known noso- logically by that designation. Let it be remembered that paroxysm and remission are the characteristics of every development of disease : they may sometimes be greatly obscured, but they must be sought for with the most watchful scrutiny, for upon their due observation and appreciation depends all sound, ration- al, and successful practice. If the great fact of paroxysmal remission be overlooked and mis-improved, the treatment of the case can only perpetuate the disease; and when thus per- petuated by maltreatment two or three weeks, need it excite 3