An Inquiry into the nature and causes of fever : with a review of the several opinions concerning its proximate cause, as advanced by different authors; ... including some observations on the existence of putrefication in the living body, and the proper method of cure to be pursued in fever / by Caleb Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, Caleb.
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1785
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    of perfpiration; fometimes the one, fome- times the other, prevails; but whichever fecretion is augmented, I apprehend that it tends to obviate any dangerous confequence which the liquor might have if no increafed difcharge followed the ufe of fuch ftimuli. Whether, however, this be the cafe or not, it is notwithstanding fufficiently certain, that Derfons are at this time more liable to AT be affected by cold ; and the conftant effect of it in fuch is the production of an in- flammatory ftate of the body, as happens in catarrh, rheumatifm, and in pneumonic in- flammation, 6cc. At the fame time, the certainty of perfons being more fufceptible of cold when the heat of the body is in- creafed by the ufe of inebriating liquors, affords us a proof of the manner in which we have attempted the explanation of it as occafioning phlogiftic affections, as it is evi- dent that the pores of the fkin are then more enlarged to admit of the particles of the perfpirable matter flowing with greater facility ; and when it may be imagined the application of cold as contracting thefe, will be more powerful on account of the greater D 3 eva- •. - .