A Treatise on Fever

by Southwood Smith

CONTENTS.

		Page.
Dedication		[i].
Preface		[iii].
CHAPTER I.
Further Investigation of Fever necessary		[1]
Facilities afforded by the Fever Hospital for prosecuting the Study		[5]
Antient Doctrines relative to the Nature and Seat of Fever		[7]
Hippocrates, Galen, Sydenham		[8]
Modern Doctrines relative to the Nature and Seat of Fever		[13]
Cullen, Brown, Stoker, Burne, Clanny, Clutterbuck, Broussais		[14]
Errors common to all these Theorists		[30]
Questions to be solved before Fever can be understood		[33]
Precise Object of Investigation		[34]
Proper Mode of conducting it		[36]
CHAPTER II.
Varieties of Fever		[41]
Common Phenomena		[42]
Importance of analyzing the Assemblage of the Symptoms, in order to ascertain the Common Phenomena		[43]
Results of the Analysis		[45]
Organs always diseased in Fever		[48]
Functions always deranged in Fever		[49]
Fever not Inflammation		[50]
Distinction between Fever and Inflammation		[52]
Common Phenomena of Fever exemplified in Plague		[53]
	in Yellow Fever,	[54]
	in the Varieties of Fever of Great Britain	[54]
Different Varieties produced by different Intensities		[58]
Received Classification and Nomenclature defective		[60]
What is really meant by Genera and Species of Fever		[70]
True Principle of Arrangement		[71]
CHAPTER III.
Of Synochus		[77]
Division into Synochus Mitior and Gravior		[77]
Succession of Phenomena in Synochus Mitior		[78]
Indications afforded of Disease in the Nervous, Circulating, Secreting, and Excreting Systems		[81]
Progress of Disease consists in progressive Increase in the Derangement of these Functions		[85]
Phenomena of Recovery		[91]
On what the Transition of Synochus Mitior into Synochus Gravior depends		[93]
Classification according to the different Organs in which the several Affections have their Seat		[95]
Synochus Gravior with Cerebral Affection		[96]
	Subacute Cerebral Affection	[96]
	Acute Cerebral Affection	[107]
Cases illustrating Synochus Mitior		[112]
Cases illustrating Synochus Gravior with Subacute Cerebral Affection		[114]
Cases illustrating Synochus Gravior with Acute Cerebral Affection		[116]
Synochus Gravior with Thoracic Affection		[120]
Cases illustrating Thoracic Affection		[123]
Synochus Gravior with Abdominal Affection		[128]
Cases illustrating Abdominal Affection		[137]
Synochus Gravior with Mixed Affection		[142]
CHAPTER IV.
Of Typhus		[148]
Division into Typhus Mitior and Gravior		[149]
Typhus Mitior, with Subacute Cerebral Affection		[149]
Cases illustrating Subacute Cerebral Affection		[155]
Typhus Mitior, with Thoracic Affection		[157]
Typhus Mitior, Cases illustrating Affection		[159]
	With Abdominal Affection	[161]
	With Mixed Affection	[162]
Typhus Gravior		[162]
	In what it really consists	[162]
Dangerous nature of the Error that it consists in Debility		[164]
CHAPTER V.
Of Scarlatina		[168]
Characters by which it is distinguished from Continued Fever without an Eruption		[168]
Division into Scarlatina Synochodes		[171]
	Typhodes	[172]
Events which occasionally occur in Fever, but which form no essential part of it		[173]
Preternatural Sensibility over the external Surface of the Body; Excoration and Sloughing; Erysipelas; Inflammation, &c. of the Glands; peculiar Affection of the Joints		[173]
CHAPTER VI.
Of the Pathology of Fever		[176]
Importance of connecting the Symptoms with the States of the Organs		[176]
Pathology of Fever comprehends the Morbid Changes that take place in the Solids and Fluids of the Body		[178]
I. General Pathology of the Solids		[179]
External Appearances of the Body after Death		[180]
Morbid Appearances in the Head		[181]
	in the Thorax	[184]
	in the Abdomen	[187]
I. Cases illustrating the Morbid Changes which take place within the Head, or Cerebral Cases		[193]
	1. Vascularity of Brain, Spinal Cord, and Membranes, with Gelatinous or slight Serous Effusion	[193]
	2. Vascularity of Brain, Membranes, &c. with Effusion of Coagulable Lymph and Formation of Pus	[204]
	3. Vascularity of Brain, Membranes, &c. with copious Serous Effusion	[210]
	4. Vascularity, &c. with Preternatural Firmness of Brain	[218]
	5. Vascularity, &c. with softening of Brain	[224]
	General Results established by preceding Cases	[230]
II. Cases illustrating the Morbid Changes which take place within the Chest, or Thoracic Cases		[235]
III. Cases illustrating the Morbid Changes which take place within the Abdomen; or Abdominal Cases		[246]
General Results established by preceding Cases		[287]
IV. Cases illustrating the Morbid Changes which take place within the Head, Thorax, and Abdomen, in the same individual, or Mixed Cases		[291]
General Conclusion		[322]
II. Pathology of the Fluids in Fever		[328]
CHAPTER VII.
Of the Relation between the Phenomena of Fever; or the Theory of the Disease		[333]
CHAPTER VIII.
Of the Causes of Fever		[348]
	1. Of the Immediate, or Exciting Cause of Fever	[348]
	2. Of the Remote or Predisposing Causes of Fever	[369]
CHAPTER IX.
Of the Treatment of Fever		[375]
Modification of Treatment required in prominent Cerebral Affection		[398]
	Thoracic Affection	[403]
	Abdominal Affection	[405]
Treatment of Scarlet Fever		[408]
Treatment during Convalescence		[418]
Appendix		[425]

FEVER, &c.