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A Treatise on Fever

Chapter 1: A TREATISE ON FEVER.
By Southwood Smith
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This work presents a practical investigation of fever, analyzing symptoms, pathology, and treatment through systematic observation and hospital case records. It distinguishes fever from inflammation, identifies recurring organ and functional derangements in nervous, circulatory, secretory, and excretory systems, and proposes a classification of febrile illnesses (notably synochus and typhus with milder and graver forms, and scarlatina-related fevers). Chapters combine symptom analysis, pathological findings, tables, and illustrative case studies to trace disease progression, criteria for recovery, and therapeutic indications, while emphasizing careful clinical method and the limits of existing theories.

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Title: A Treatise on Fever

Author: Southwood Smith

Release date: October 4, 2019 [eBook #60419]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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A
TREATISE ON FEVER.

BY
SOUTHWOOD SMITH, M.D.
PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
PATER-NOSTER ROW.
1830.
PRINTED BY G. HAYDEN,
Little College Street, Westminster.
TO
HIS GRACE
THE DUKE OF SOMERSET,
PRESIDENT;
TO
THE VICE-PRESIDENTS,
TO
THE TREASURERS,
AND TO THE
OTHER GENTLEMEN CONSTITUTING THE COMMITTEE,
Of the London Fever Hospital;
IN TESTIMONY
OF HIS ADMIRATION OF THE DILIGENCE
WITH WHICH
THEY LABOUR TO PROMOTE THE PROSPERITY,
AND THE
CARE WITH WHICH THEY WATCH OVER THE INTERESTS OF THIS INSTITUTION;
WHICH,
IN THE MAGNITUDE OF THE BENEFITS IT CONFERS,
NO LESS THAN
IN THE INEXPENSIVENESS OF THE MEANS
BY WHICH,
THROUGH THEIR ECONOMY, IT IS ENABLED TO SECURE THEM,
IS EQUALLED BY FEW ESTABLISHMENTS,
AND
SURPASSED BY NONE;
THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED
BY
THE AUTHOR.