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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    a ae 45% RECAPITULATION. equivocal marks of preceding inflammation in the brain have been detected after fevers, are comparatively very numerous. Could we be fatisfied with the lefs firik- ing, but perhaps fcarcely lefs firong, proofs of inflammatory action; fuch as general -fulnefs of veflels, ferous effufion, and, above all, an unuiual degree of vafcularity in the fubftance of the brain (as fhewn in its greater firmnefs, heightened colour, and the increafed number and fize of vefiels); I have reafon to believe, both from what I have myfelf feen, and from the obfervations of others who have paid attention to the fubject, that there are few, if any, fatal terminations of fever (that 1s, where the pa- tient dies from the fever itfelf,. and not from any fupervening diforder) in which fuch appearances might not be detected, The brain is not the only organ which may have its functions greatly deranged during life, without leaving traces of pre- vious morbid affection correfponding with the magnitude of the difeafe. In diabetes, the mode of acting in the kidneys undergoes a total change. Inftead of urine, their proper fecretion, there is af-