Five Dissertations on Fever (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... Oesehal Intlakmatios Intehmixed WITH ConTtnuED Feteh--Is apt to take place at the beginning of the fever in persons of strong habits--Rarely in those who live in crowded cities and who are exposed to vapours of putrefying and other substances--Men formed to live in warm climates--Driven by necessity to colder climates--Their mind strengthened by exertions to guard against the inclemencies of cold--Living in a colder atmosphere increases the towers of their bodies--Blood-vessels adapt themselves to the quantity of blood contained in them--This adaptation depends on a vital contraction--A smaller quantity than common in the blood-vessels gives rise to greater exertion in these, --like labour, causing muscular contraction--Exhaustion follows the long continued contraction in both cases--Muscular action may and must cease---The contraction of the blood-vessels must be continued, and to sustain it, --if their quantity of blood should be constantly diminished, the living power will be withdrawn from every other function--Arrangement of the blood-vessels--Anastomosing arteries and veins--Capillary vessels the intermediate ones--Exertion to contract the larger arteries and veins greater than that of the capillaries--Less blood required to kill an animal taken from a largo artery or vein than from smaller and capillary ones--Rationale of the effect of living in warm air to cause weakness--Of that of cold to give strength--General inflammation most common in countries in high latitudes, and in elevated situations, and in the winter and spring seasons--No difficulty in having recourse to blood-letting, when general inflammation occurs at the beginning of intermitting fever--The intermissions made more perfect thereby--In continued fevers, the question is one of more d.