A practical and historical treatise on consumptive diseases / Deduced from original observations, and collected from authors of all ages.

  • Young, Thomas, 1773-1829.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A practical and historical treatise on consumptive diseases / Deduced from original observations, and collected from authors of all ages. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * SYMPTOMS. OF HECTIC FEVER. Y, also a matter of dispute among authors, whether a paroxysm is not always brought on, in true hectic, by taking food: Galen makes this circum- stance a characteristic of a regular hectic; and - though Cullen: asserts, that food taken in the morning will not occasion an exacerbation, the truth of his opinion has: been questioned by Vogel, Wilson, and other late authors, who con- firm. the observation of Galen, and-assert thata’ — _ full meal, taken at any time of the day, is always followed by a very: observable increase of the febrile symptoms. : «oon The exacerbations are igh bya sensation of bumiing heat in the palms of the hands, which become red and mottled, and frequently in the soles of the feet: there is alsoa circumscribed. redness in the cheeks, particularly in persons of a delicate and florid complexion; and in such’ _persons, the colour constantly. present in the cheeks, during the remission, has also a more abs. rupt termination, and a bughion. 6 tint, than in the state of perfect health.. | Ble 4 -It is commonly asserted, that the hate parex- ysms of hectic fever are preceded by very dis-* tinct cold fitsor chills; and there can beno doubt that the sensation of cold:is often in reality very: severe: but it does not appear to have been ascer- tained, that the thermometrical heat of theblood in the internal parts: is even reduced, during these. cold fits; to the natural:standard, though the cir-