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Sketch of the History and Cure of Febrile Diseases: Particular Ly As They Appear in West-Indies Among Soldiers of the British Army
Sketch of the History and Cure of Febrile Diseases Particular Ly As They Appear in WestIndies Among Soldiers of the British Army Author:Robert Jackson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Original Publisher: Eeles Subjects: Pathology Medical / General Medical / Pathology Medical / Tropical Medicine Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General B... more »ooks edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Description of Fever, as it occurs in the Islands of the West-Indies, and on the Coast of Dutch Guyana. HE following description of fever applies to two extremes, viz. the mild and the aggravated: -- the intermediate shades are numerous and various. The dominant temperament, under which the febrile cause produces its action, is kept in view in the following descriptions: -- the detail of history is drawn from cases that present themselves as unopposed, or as feebly opposed by art. The blood, as drawn from the vein in fevers of the sanguine temperament, is generally florid and warm. It flows freely and with force; and it often, but not always, separates speedily and perfectly into constituent parts when allowed to rest. The crassamentum is often, not always firm, sometimes slightly turned up at the edges in form of a cup, and sometimes imperfectlycovered with an appearance of buffy coloured crust. CHAP, 1. The mild form of continued fever, in the sanguine temperament, sometimes comes on suddenly, sometimes the formal attack is preceded by unpleasant sensations at stomach, listlessness, head-ache, drowsi- or watchfulness. The actual invasion is usu- symptoms ally indicated by a sense of cold at the extremities -- and in the back; a creeping in the flesh, termed horror; sometimes by shivering and even by shaking. Tie sensations of cold are usually stronger in the periodic than in the continued forms; but, in subjects of the sanguine temperament and of the open form "fact...« less