An essay on pyrexia, or symptomatic fever, as illustrative of the nature of fever in general / by Henry Clutterbuck.

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856.
Date:
1837
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Credit: An essay on pyrexia, or symptomatic fever, as illustrative of the nature of fever in general / by Henry Clutterbuck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    order that time might be given for further ob- servation; and, also, that I might be enabled to profit by the suggestions of those who adopted a different view of the subject. The result of the delay, however, has been a more settled conviction in my own mind of the truth of the opinions I had before formed. The object of the following pages is to en- deavour to shew that a febrile state of system, or what is technically denominated symptomatic fever, is always a secondary affection, the result of inflammation, and of no other cause. In this respect, the subject is of importance for the purpose of diagnosis, as it may lead us to discover the existence of inflammation in cases where it might not otherwise be suspected, that is, m cases where the local signs are not obvious, or with difficulty to be observed. It is not un- important, likewise, in regard to practice; for although pyrexia be but a secondary state, it is capable of influencing materially both tlic pri- mary disease (the inflammation which produced it) and the general system. Its influence on the primary disease is sometimes favourable,