FEVER. 



Definition. Symptomatic. Idiopathic. Symptoms. Contagion. Incu- 

 bation. Premonitory symptoms. Chill, rigor. Reaction, hot stage. De- 

 fervescence. Crisis. I/ysis. Natural temperature. Fever temperature. 

 Retention of water in the system. Production of waste materials. Typhoid 

 condition. High fever, low, hectic. Treatment in vigorous subject, in 

 weak one. Regimen. Solipedes. Ruminants. Carnivora. Drink. Rest. 

 Clothing. Air. General and local bleeding. Cupping. Warm baths, 

 tepid, compresses, derivatives. Cold. Diaphoretics. Laxatives. Diuret- 

 ics. Sedatives. Alkalies. Antipyretics. Stimulants. Tonic refrigerants. 

 Tonics. In low fever. No depletion. Judicious elimination. Stimulants. 

 Refrigerants. Antiseptics. Diet. Local treatment of inflammation. Cold. 

 Astringents. Antiseptics. Warm applications. Stimulating embrocations. 

 Blisters. Firing. Massage. Suppuration. 



Definition. Whether occurring as an accompaniment of in- 

 flammation or independently of it, fever is an unnatiiral elevation 

 of the temperature of the body, the direct result of an excess of 

 destructive chemical change in the blood and tissues, and more re- 

 motely of disordered nervous function. 



Of all extensive inflammations fever is the constant result and 

 accompaniment, rising as the inflammation rises or extends, and 

 subsiding as the inflammation .sitbsides. It also occurs as a dis- 

 tinct affection, as in all the infectious diseases, as the result of a 

 specific irritating poison in the sj'stem, and then is the manifesta- 

 tion of the disease, while a local inflammation may or may not be 

 present as a special secondary feature of the malady or as an ac- 

 cidental complication. 



Symptoms of Fever. Fever is marked by certain definite stages, 

 each of which has its own special manifestations. In the cases 

 due to a specific disease-germ, or contagium, the.se are, however, 

 preceded by a period of latency or incubation in which no symp- 

 toms whatever are manifest, but during this time the germ is 

 rapidly multiplying in the .sy.stem, and it is only when it has 

 gained a certain increase that it disorders the nervous system, 

 wastes the ti.ssues, raises the temperature of the bodj^ and induces 

 the other phenomena of fever. The same may be said to hold in 

 the fever attending on inflammation. The slight and circum- 



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