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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.

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856.
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    26. Difeafed actions are not always ac- companied with fenfation ; hence difeafes of parts that lie concealed from view are fre- quently overlooked. The lungs, the brain, and many other parts, have been found dis- organized after death, where no pain or other direct affection of thofe organs occur- red, during- life, that led to fufpect the exist- ence of fuch injury. 27. But although organic affections can not in all cafes be detected by the feelings of the organ itfelf, they are fometimes dif- coverable by the affection of other parts connected with it by fympathy. Thus we are enabled to trace many affections of the ftomach, of the vafcular fyftem, and of other remote parts, to a difordered ftate of the brain and its functions. And fo in many other inflances. 28. No part can undergo any material alteration, either in its ftructure or mode of acting, without a correfponding change tak- ing place in its functions. Thus, if it be a fecretory organ that is affected, the fecre- tion will be changed in quantity or qua- lity, and commonly in both refpects at once : if it be an organ of fenfe, its fenfi- bility will be augmented or impaired, or