A dissertation on simple fever, or, On fever consisting on paroxysm only / by George Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: A dissertation on simple fever, or, On fever consisting on paroxysm only / by George Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    fallen in with the Giants Caufeway, of Irene. There are few appearances (fymptom is the Greek name for appearance) that never take place excepting in one particular difeafe; and ftill fewer particular difeafes which do not often take place without any one peculiar fymptom. An inflammation, to give a ftrong inftance, but perfe&ly grounded on anatomi- cal difledtion* may take place in the pleura without pain, fince not only adhefions have been found on direction, but fuppuration both above and below the pletira, when the patient has never complained of any pain in the fide. Fever, of all other difeafes, is that one in which a pathognomic fymptom is leaft to be depended upon; that is to fay, an appearance which does not take place when there is no fever, or a fever does not take place when there is no fuch appearance. Let me examine thofe appearances which have been conlidered as pathognomic, B 4 Heat,