Epidemiology, old and new / [William H. Hamer].

  • Hamer, William Heaton, 1862-1936.
Date:
1928
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    also mentions swelling of the tonsils, hoarseness, hardness of the belly and dropsical swellings. This description is important, for Sydenham regards it as relating to the “ Standard fever 'of Nature,” “both on account of the regularity of the method which it employs in pro¬ moting the morbific matter (digesting it at its assigned time) and from the fact of its being of all fevers the commonest in respect of its occurrence (M.O., V, vi, 1 and I,iii, 8). III. Constitution of Plague and Pestilential Fever. 1665-6. Sydenham saw little of the Plague. As regards the Pestilential Fever, he refers to sweating and danger of supervention of brain fever, but he was inclined at first, to distinguish it from “ the commoner sort which we have just dealt with,” i.e., from the fever of his first constitution (58a, Vol. I, Appx. A., p. 269). A full account of pestilential fever is given by Willis (66a, Chaps. XII- XIV). IV. Constitution of Small Pox with a Variolous Fever, 1667-69. Dr. Goodall (21b) doubts “ whether any writer of modern times has added a single important observa¬ tion to (Sydenham’s) admirable and detailed description of small pox.” Sydenham describes variolous fever as small pox without the rash; he mentions, however, head¬ ache, pain at the pit of the stomach, sweats, occasionally petechias, diarrhoea, and brain fever. The main point of distinction between this and the “ Standard fever of Nature” seems to be occurrence of salivation, as in small¬ pox itself.