The family adviser : greatly enlarged and amended ; to which is prefixed The philosophy of disease, with tables, for the use of students of medicine ; or of gentlemen who wish to become acquainted with the fundamental principles of medicine / by Henry Wilkins.

  • Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847.
Date:
1833
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    skin, eyes, tongue, and urine, are often coloured with it. The liver, spleen, and stomach, are sometimes decidedly inflamed, and perhaps never escape entirely. The liver and spleen are often enlarged. The worst cases end in mortifications of the parts locally affected. The tongue is white in intermittents; but more often yellow or brown in remittents, with a fur or sordes.— The pulse is sometimes full in remittents, but not al- ways so; the strength and rapidity of it rises from merely more than natural, up to the highest pitch it is capable of performing; according to the degrees and violence of the disorder. In intermittents the pulse is always full and strong during the greater part of the hot stage; but quick and generally small in the chill, owing to the contraction of it. The head, and loins, and abdomen, are often affected in remittents; and when the two latter are considerable, they are considered as unfavourable symptoms; portending a severe fever. Intermittent and remittent fevers appear dependent on the same general causes. In solitary remittents, the patient is (besides the climate and place) indebted to some irregularity for his fever; such as would come near to give him fever at any time or place. But in an epidemic state of the air a very trifling cause will excite this fever. Intermittent fevers are so much indebted to predis- position, from place and season, that they will ensue often without an apparent exciting cause, and in general require nothing more than exposure to a rain shower, a cool blast of air, a little fatigue, or indigestion, to bring them on. Bilious fevers prevail in low and high lands, when near to streams, ponds, mill-dams, &c; they prevail also in shallow soils, where there is a substratum of rock, such as at Malta and Gibraltar, where the heat of the soil forces the water back, and when the air is cool the humidity is condensed and thrown down in fogs, or invisible vapours; thus macerating the surface, ob- structing the perspiration, and affecting the process of the hings.