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 of dissection : in two parts : part the first : containing the general doctrine of fever / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D.

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856.
Date:
1807
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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 of dissection : in two parts : part the first : containing the general doctrine of fever / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAP. I PRELIMINARY COXSIDERATIONS, 1 Sect. I. Lazes of the Sjjjicm in Healthy 1—the human hodv a very comphcated machine, 1—vve are ignorant of the ultimate ftructure and mode of a6tii]g of parts-—and confequently of proximate caules—DiUbction affords but little aid—Tiie 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 Se6t.IL Of the Natm^e of Dijeafe generally, 10—dileafe, what —the vafcular fyftem is the S!;reat feat of difeafe, 11—laws of difeafe, 11, 16—Divifion of fymptoms, 15—Method of deter- mining the primary feat of difeafe, 20—utility of the inquiry, 21 Se6t. III. Of the Dmfion of Dijeajes into Univerfal and Localj 22—no fuch thing as univerfal difeafes, 23, 28^—Debility ne- ver the immediate caufe of difeafe, 30—^utility of difcriminat- ing between general and topical difeales, 32 CHAP. H OF TH£ PRIMARY SEAT OF FEVKR, 33 Fever not a difeafe of the whole (yflem, 33—tiie Brain the prin- cipal feat of P'ever, 34 Se6t, I. Of the Phenomena (f Fever, as indicating itfi Seat, 36— 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 ofihcjimple or organic functions on the Brain, 50 Se6t. II. Of the State of the Animal Fan/lions in Fever, 53— thefe always difturbed m Fever—heati the chief feat of com- plaint in Fever, 61 Sect. III. Of the State of the Vital Functions in Fever, 63—the vital functions, refpiration and circulation, are aife^tcd oidy fecondarily in Fever—^The puife an uncertain iiidex of the prefence of Fevers 65