Fever nursing : a course of lectures on the nursing required in cases of ordinary fever / by Mary Harris.

  • Harris, Mary.
Date:
[1888?]
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Credit: Fever nursing : a course of lectures on the nursing required in cases of ordinary fever / by Mary Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    intensity of the inflammation, and often altogether suppressed. Whether it contains blood or not it always contains albumen, and the quantity may be so great as almost to solidify on boiling. If the patient is up and not sent to bed on the appearance of the vomiting, &c,, or if he is allowed to get up while the inflammation lasts, dropsy usually sets in. This is first noticed in a puffiness of the eyelids, but if still neglected, it soon becomes general. The face, legs, abdomen, and other parts are greatly swollen, and the pleural and pericardial sacs may become filled by a quantity of fluid. This state of things is hardly ever seen in hospital, except in those cases that have been neglected at home for some weeks, and admitted in the con- dition described. Or, inflammation of the kidneys may lead to uraemia, from the deficient elimination of urea from