Elements of pathology and therapeutics : being the outlines of a work, intended to ascertain the nature, causes, and most efficacious modes of prevention and cure, of the greater number of the diseases incidental to the human frame / by Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822.
Date:
1815
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    (DCCCCLXXV.) They are, also, alike capable of being sus- pended by determinations of blood to distant parts; as erysipelas of the face, the passage of a calculus through the ureter producing excessive pain, or by any other cause, which occasions great, and more especially long, preternatural coldness of the lower extremities. (DCCCCLXXVI.) To the above proofs it may be added, that these three affections are not always accom- panied with increased action of the heart, but that, when they are, they exhibit themselves with proportionably greater force. (DCCCCLXXVII.) On more than one occasion, when ingesta, usu- ally producing dyspepsia, have been frequently, and at near periods, taken without that effect, the evidence of reaction has been true vertigo. This, at least, has been the first symptom noticed; but, about the same time, there has been a glow of heat over the patient's whole head, soon followed by an increased motion in the alimentary canal, and that tingling of the fret and legs, accompanied with increased warmth,