An inquiry into the seat and nature of fever; as deducible from the phenomena, causes, and consequences of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection. In two parts. Part the first. Containing the general doctrine of fever / [Henry Clutterbuck].

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856
Date:
1807
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Credit: An inquiry into the seat and nature of fever; as deducible from the phenomena, causes, and consequences of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection. In two parts. Part the first. Containing the general doctrine of fever / [Henry Clutterbuck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAP. I-—prRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS, 1 Seét. I. Laws of the Syfiem in Health, 1—the human body @ very complicated machine, 1—we are ignorant of the ultimate firucture and mode of acting of parts--and confequently of proximate caules—Diflection affords but little aid—The fu- feeptibility varies in different parts, and in the fame parts at different times—all agents produce peculiar effe¢cts—relation between the different parts of the fyftem explained, 7 Sect. 1. Of the Nature of Dijeaje generally, 10—difeafe, what —the vaicular fyitem is the great feat of difeafe, 11—laws of difeafe, 11, 16—Divifion of fymptoms, 15—-Method of deter- mining the primary feat of difeafe, 20—utility of the inquiry, 21 Seét. HT. Of the Divifion of Difeafes into Universal and Local, 22—no fuch thing as univerfal difeafes, 23, 28—Debility ne- ver the immediate caule of difeafe, S0—utility of difcriminat- ing between general and topical dileales, 32 CHAP. Il—or THE PRIMARY SEAT OF FEVER, 33 Fever not a difeafe of the whole fyflem, 33—the Brain the prin- cipal feat of Fever, 34 Seét. I. Of the Phenomena of Fever, as indicating its Seat, 36— feries of fymptoms in Fever, 37, 41—the effential fymptoms the fame in all Fevers, and all referable to the Brain, 49—In- fiuence of the Brain on the different functions pointed out— independence of the femple or organic functions on the Brain, 50 Sect. HW. Of the State of the Animal Punétions in Fever, 53— thefe always difturbed in Fever—head the chief feat of com- plaint in Fever, 61 Sect. IT. Of the State of the Vital Funéfionsin Fever, 63—the vital funétions, refpiration and circulation, are atfeéted only fecondarily in Fever-—The pulfe an uncertain index of the prefence of Fever, 65