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An inquiry into the seat and nature of fever : as deducible from the phenomena, causes, and consequences of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection. / By Henry Clutterbuck.

  • Henry Clutterbuck
Date:
1825
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Credit: An inquiry into the seat and nature of fever : as deducible from the phenomena, causes, and consequences of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection. / By Henry Clutterbuck. 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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    CONTENTS. CHAP. I—PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS, 1 Seel. I. Luus of the Syjlem in Heail/i, 1—the human body a very complicated machine, 1—we are ignorant of the ultimate ftructure and mode of acting of parts—and confequently of proximate caul'es—Diffeclion affords but little aid—The fu- fceptibility varies in different parts, and in the lame parts at different times—all agents produce peculiar effects—relation between the different parts of the fyftem explained, 7 Sect. II. Ofthe Nature ofDijeafe generally, 10—dileafe, what —the vaicular lyftem is the great feat of dileafe, 11—laws of difeafe,, 11, 16—Divifton of fymptoms, 15—Method of deter- mining the primary feat of difeafe, 20—utility of the inquiry, 21 Se<St. III. Of the Divijion of Difeafes into Univerfal and Local, 22—no fuch thing as univerfal difeafes, 23, 28—Dcbdity ne- ver the immediate caule of difeafe, SO—utility of difcriminat- ing between general and topical difeafes, 3% CHAP. II OP THE TRIMARY SEAT OF FEVER, 33 Fever not a difeafe of the whole fyftem, 33—the Brain the prin- cipal feat of Fever, 34 Sect. I. Of the Phenomena of Fever, as indicating its Seat, 3C— feries of fymptoms in Fever, 37, 41—the effential fymptoms the fame in all Fevers, and all referable to the Brain, 49—In- fluence of the Brain on the different functions pointed out— independence of the fimple or organic functions on the Brain, 50 Sect. II. Of the State of the Animal Funclions in Fever, 53— thefe always difturbed in Fever—head the chief feat of com- plaint in Fever, CI Sect. III. Of the State of the Vital Funfiions in Fever, 63—the vital functions, refpiration and circulation, ure affected only fecondarily in Fever—The jmlfe an uncertain index of tli« prefence of Fever, 65
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