A treatise on primitive or secondary disguised or misplaced fever, as a single disease : with the varieties, cause, and treatment, as it appears in most of the particular forms of fever recognized by nosologists / by M. E. Sawyer.

  • Sawyer, Matthias E. (Matthias Enoch)
Date:
1831
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    have occurred so often in his practice without its existence depending on some evident external exciting cause. He was irresistibly led to seek that cause, and in finding it, as he believes he has, to be the same which produces the fever of summer, or autumn, he was compelled to place this disease, as well as phlegmasia dolens and jaundice, among that class of diseases known as disguised or misplaced intermittents. In doing tins he has intended no disparagement to the import- ance of the gout, or the many honourable patients it may claim as its victims; he could not, as he supposed, place either of those complaints among primary fevers, yet a fever is produced from pain or irritation, hence he has chosen to call it se- condary or symptomatic fever. If he shall have sustained this position by the facts and reasoning which he has adduced in their support ; if the knowledge of the cause should point to a more sure preventive than any heretofore offered to the consideration of the public ; and if the true na- ture and character of the disease should lead to a more rational and less uncertain cure, — he is not without the hope that his endeavours to les- sen the miseries of thousands of his fellow beings will be regarded as a proof of his good will to-