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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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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.

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    carried on, though lefs vigoroufly than be- fore ; and until one or more of thefe become deranged or interrupted, or until fome un- eafy fenfation is induced, difeafe can hard- ly be faid to exift. 44. With regard to the oppofite condi- tion of the fyftem, namely, general excefs, either of ftrength or action, the exiftence of fuch a ftate may, I think, be doubted. In what is termed the inflammatory dial he/is, as obferved to accompany certain topical inflammations, the whole vafcular fyftem appears to be acting in excefs; but it is not the fame in refpect to other organs. The voluntary power is in fuch cafes obferved to be greatly diminifhed, and many of the functions are found to be nearly at a ftand. The ftate of the fyftem in mania has been adduced as an inftance of general excefs of action: but even in this cafe, although the voluntary power, the fenfibility, and even the mental energy as far as regards perception, appear to be preternaturally in- creafed ; there are ftill many other functions, lefs immediately depending on the brain, that are obferved to be in a torpid ftate. Thus digeftion and affimilation, and many of the fecretions and excretions, are very im- perfectly performed in mania : and with re- gard to the mind, although the powers of