A series of essays on inflammation and its varieties : tending to show, that most diseases either consist in inflammation, or are consequences of it, more or less remote / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D.

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856.
Date:
1846
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    essentially affected; as may be inferred from the state of feeling's and functions of the part, both during the paroxysm, and after its subsidence. During the paroxysm, indeed, there is little room for doubt: the heat of the head, although the sur- face and extremities are cold—the throbbing of arteries in the head—and the more or less dis- turbed state of the proper cerebral functions of sensation, voluntary motion, and (not seldom also) of intellect—these, taken together, appear to be sufficiently convincing proofs of the locality of the disease—while the general febrile symptoms, with the foul and coated state of the tongue, are but the ordinary concomitants of inflammation, where- ever seated. In these cases, the general febrile symptoms decline after a few hours; but the local affection, that of the brain, still continues, though in a greatly-reduced degree; and the tongue re- tains its crust—a proof of continued febrile action, and therefore of inflammation, its sole exciting- cause. The case of phthisis pulmonalis—the result, in- variably, of slow and destructive inflammation in the lungs,—with its attendant hectic fever, re- curring by paroxysms scarcely less regular than 5