Introductory lectures : exhibiting some of Mr Hunter's opinions respecting life and diseases, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 1814 and 1815 / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1815
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    ral parts. In each of these disorders, in- deed, it is evident that the whole system is affected ; the nervous functions are im- paired or disturbed ; as are also those of the digestive organs, and of the sanguiferous and secerning systems. Yet we denomi- nate these general disorders from their most prominent character. Thus, when the sanguiferous and secerning organs are chiefly affected, and the temperature of the body is subject to considerable varia- tions, we call the disorder fever. Of fevers, some are violent or inflammatory, but of short duration ; some more languid and con- tinued, becoming as it were, habitual or hectical; and there are others, in which the actions are vehement, though the powers are feeble ; these cannot be long continued, for they are speedily destruc- tive of life : the last also frequently so strikingly resemble Typhus as not to be distinguishable from that fever when it