An essay on intermittent and bilious remittent fevers : with their pathological relation to ozone / by E. S. Gaillard, M.D.

  • Gaillard, E. S. (Edwin Samuel), 1827-1885.
Date:
1856
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    Again, we have the analogue of Copeland's views, in the effect produced on disease by sex. We know that cerebral congestion, producing coma and strabismus in the male infant, is as marked as chorea and epilepsy, which characterize the spinal congestions of the female. The most consistent ground on which to found a type in Fever, has been stated, as that which bears a direct relation to causation. Thus the zymotic- action of malaria gives us many kinds of Fever, as mani- fested by their respective symptoms, but all of a single type. Ozone produces its type—Catarrhal Fever, and lastly the zymosis of ochlesis and contagion, respectively, Typhus Fe- ver, and the exanthemata. There are some Fevers which we cannot thus classify, as Yellow Fever, etc. This should, however, form no argument against the justice of this theory, but rather as only showing our inability farther to illustrate the truth of it; a difficulty which must terminate on the revelation. or discovery of the cause, in each peculiar and particular dis- ease. The truth of this theory—and it is, we think, almost a professional axiom—must prove the falsity of that doctrine which advocates the unity of Fevers. How the simple mani- festation of periodicity in continued Fevers, or their amenabil- ity to the quinine treatment, could suggest such a doctrine, is, indeed, incomprehensible. This periodicity has, to a certain extent, been always manifested in continued Fevers, and where this prevails in a malarious region, or supervenes upon a mala- rious Fever, it is only reasonable to suppose that this agent will. in some measure, modify the disease. Where this is the case, the patient is, of course, improved by the quinine treatment, because the effects of the agent in question have become apart of the disease, and these effects are more amenable to this pecu- liar antidote than to any other known. Where, however, mala- ria does not exist, it has been clearly proved that quinine is of no value whatever when administered in any of the stages of continued Fever. Again, it is well known that a few of the cases of Pleurisy, Pneumonia, etc., prevailing in the South- ern sections of our country, are modified by malarious infill ences, thus becoming periodical; and that these yield promptly under the quinine treatment; so that reasoning in this very