A Treatise on Fever
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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.
HIS GRACE
THE DUKE OF SOMERSET,
Southwood Smith
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
I. Synochus Gravior with Cerebral Affection,
II. Synochus Gravior with Thoracic Affection.
III. Synochus Gravior with Abdominal Affection.
IV. Synochus Gravior with Mixed Affection.
CHAPTER IV.
I. Typhus Mitior, with Cerebral Affection.
II. Typhus Mitior, with Thoracic Affection.
III. Typhus Mitior, with Abdominal Affection.
IV. Typhus Mitior, with Mixed Affection.
II. Typhus Gravior.
CHAPTER V.
I. Pathology of the Solids in Fever.
II. Cases in illustration of the Morbid Changes which take place within the Head: or Cerebral Cases.
II. Cases in illustration of the Morbid Changes which take place within the Chest; or Thoracic Cases.
III. Cases in Illustration of the Morbid Changes which take place within the Abdomen; or Abdominal Cases.
IV. Cases in Illustration of the Morbid Changes which take place within the Head, Thorax, and Abdomen, in the same Individual; or Mixed Cases.
II. Pathology of the Fluids in Fever.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
I. Of the Immediate, or Exciting Cause of Fever.
II. Of the Remote or Predisposing Causes of Fever.
CHAPTER IX.
I. Of the Modification of the Treatment in Cerebral Affection.
II. Of the Modification of Treatment in Thoracic Affection.
III. Of the Modification of the Treatment in Abdominal Affection.
IV. We have spoken of a fever still more intense
V. Of the Treatment of Scarlet Fever.
II. Treatment during the Convalescence.
APPENDIX.
Occupation of Patients, with reference to Susceptibility, for one year.
Sex of Patient, with reference to Susceptibility.
Sex of Patient, with reference to Mortality.
Locality of Patient, with reference to Susceptibility.
Table of Ages, with reference to Susceptibility.
Table of Ages, with reference to Mortality.
Relation between date of Attack, Admission, and Death, for one year, comprehending 84 Cases.
Proportions of Type out of 300 Cases.
Proportions of Internal Characteristic Affection out of 300 Cases.
Proportions of External Accidental Affection out of 300 Cases.
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