A practical treatise on the remittent fever of infants : with remarks on hydrocephalus internus or water on the brain, and several other diseases : and cases and observations designed to illustrate the influence exerted by a certain disordered state of the chylopoietic viscera, upon local and constitutional diseases / [James Milman Coley].

  • Coley, James Milman.
Date:
1813
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Credit: A practical treatise on the remittent fever of infants : with remarks on hydrocephalus internus or water on the brain, and several other diseases : and cases and observations designed to illustrate the influence exerted by a certain disordered state of the chylopoietic viscera, upon local and constitutional diseases / [James Milman Coley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    illness, together with an almost constant pick- ing of the skin about the eyes, nose, lips and fingers. The duration of the fibrile paroxysm is usually one or two hours, but in some in- stances will extend through the whole night; after which a remission takes place, and the patient becomes more wakeful and inclined for amusement; or it will sometimes termin- ate in sleep of a refreshing nature. The Pulse now beats from an hundred and twenty to an hundred and thirty. The return of these exacerbations is uncer- tain ; most commonly there is one in the forenoon, one in the afternoon and one in the night. The last is usually the longest and most violent. When the fever runs very high we have much difficulty in observing any distinct remissions. There is much variation in the temperature of the body : the head, belly, and palms of the hands being more hot than any other parts on the surface. In some instances, the “ Head is more af- fected even to a degree of raving, and one or other of the excretions is always remarkably