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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    induces a fpafm in the extreme veffels of the body, which fupports the hot ftage: but in the instances mentioned by Mr Cleghorn, according to Dr Cullen's own account, it would even appear the vis medicatrix was not excited in inducing any fpafm, for there was no cold fit; and yet the paroxyfms were more violent than if the attack of the dif- eafe had been ufhered in with the fhivering, as is moft generally the cafe. Dr Cullen would ftill infill, however, there is fome de- gree of fhivering conftantly to be remarked; and that in the cafes alluded to, this, on ac- count of its being flight, had efcaped Mr Cleghorn's obfervation. 'But the late Dr Gregory has likewife found the cold fit wanting ; and Sir John Pringle, in fpeaking of the autumnal remitting fever, particular- ly mentions that the paroxyfm returns in the clofe of the day, but without any cold ftage. If, therefore, there was any cold fit to be remarked, it is merely impoffible it could have palled unnoticed by thefe gentle- men, who have been fo attentive in noting die phenomena and caufes of difeafe. Dr Cullen further mentions, that with the G 4 fpafg}