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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    symptoms—that is, from the state of the pulse, heat of skirij and others, they are not in all cases wholly to be relied upon. Thus, we cannot always form a just estimate of the degree, and probable termination, of idiopathic fever mere- ly from examining the pulse, or heat of skin, or even the appearance of the tongue, in the early part of the disease ; but must look particularly to the way in which the functions of the organ primarily affected, the brain, are performed, as shewn by the state of mind, of sensation, and of the voluntary power. And so in regard to other inflammations. On the other hand, the febrile symptoms are often violent where the primary inflammation is slight, and the danger comparatively small. Of this we have frequent instances in pleurisy, acute rheumatism, and, likewise, in that variety of idiopathic fever, termed the inflammatory (synocha); in all of which the heat of skin is great, the pulse full and strong, and the tongue thickly coated; and yet, under proper manage- ment, there may be little real danger. Pyrexia, being always a secondary aff^cction,