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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    sional momentary sensations of chilliness, felt, in particular, along the course of the spine ; or, at most, are accompanied with slight and transient shiverings. On other occasions, the coldness is severely felt over all the surface: the skin is pale, and corrugated, like that of a plucked goose cutis anserina) \ the features appear shrunk and sharp; the lips and nails are either colourless or livid; while the volun- tary muscles throughout the body are in a state of involuntary tremor. There is, at the same time, a feeling of anxiety and oppression, referred to the region of the heart, attended with frequent sighing; and a considerable de- gree of torpor or insensibiUty involves both mind and body. The pulse at the wrist, in the first or cold stage of pyrexia, is always small and feeble; generally frequent; and not seldom irregular also. These symptoms continue but for a short period, perhaps an hour or two, and then give place to those of the second stage, or hot Jit.