A dissertation on the institutes of medicine, particularly relating to the pathology of fever / By William Stoker.

  • Stoker, Gulielmus, 1773-1848.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A dissertation on the institutes of medicine, particularly relating to the pathology of fever / By William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the adipofibrinous matter, carried thither by the veins, a commencement of that in¬ timate combination takes place, by which subsequently in the lesser, as well as in the greater circulation, caloric, in consequence of diminished capacity for it in the circu¬ lating mass, is evolved, according to the exigencies of life. A theory of animal heat, consistent with those of Drs. Craw¬ ford, Skey, and De la Rive,* which will be found further substantiated by evidence de¬ rived from observations in the course of diseases. The cases which afford such evi¬ dence shall be considered more fully in the next section, on Pathology; but those to which I would at present refer, were these of certain dysenteric forms of the epidemic that prevailed last Summer in this coun¬ try, in which very large quantities of dark- coloured blood were discharged from the mesenteric and haemorrhoidal veins ; and where the temperature of the patients, as¬ certained by applying the hand to any part * See Crawford in Phil. Trans, for 1781; Dr. Skey's Thesis de Materia Combustibile Sanguinis ; also Prof. De la Rive's de Calore Animali.