Observations on the prevention and treatment of epidemic fever, at present prevailing in this Metropolis and most parts of the United Kingdom. To which are added remarks on some of the opinions of Dr. Bateman. And others, on the same subject ... / [Henry Clutterbuck].

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Observations on the prevention and treatment of epidemic fever, at present prevailing in this Metropolis and most parts of the United Kingdom. To which are added remarks on some of the opinions of Dr. Bateman. And others, on the same subject ... / [Henry Clutterbuck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of long or short duration, as already ob- served. Or it may be violent from the first ; when its duration is commonly, and indeed necessarily, short. Or, lastly, it may set out mildly, with no appearance of danger attached to it; yet, at a more ad- vanced period, it may assume the most ma- lignant characters. The disease, when thus confirmed, may be considered as compounded of the local symptoms, which consist in pain of the head and disorder of the sensorial functions; and of pyrexia, or general febrile symptoms; the common attendant of inflammation. These may exist in very different degrees in re- gard to each other, with no necessary cor- respondence, or determined relation between them. Sometimes the febrile symptoms, as in- dicated by the pulse and heat of skin chiefly, are mild, yet the functions of the brain are greatly disordered ; as seen in the early de- lirium, the disorder of the senses, and of the muscular power. This is a dangerous state of fever, in which the tongue commonly assumes a brownish hue, in. different de- c 3