Thermic fever, or, sunstroke / by H.C. Wood.

Date:
1872
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Credit: Thermic fever, or, sunstroke / by H.C. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PART 1. CLINICAL HISTORY. Introductory.—There can be no doubt that under the name of sunstroke or coup de soleil sudden cases of severe illness of very different natures have been described by authors. Such of these cases as have really been dependent upon exposure to excess- ive heat can be classified under two, or perhaps three, heads, to which the names of acute menin- gitis or phrenitis, heat exhaustion, and thermic fever or triLe sunstroke, may be respectively applied, as more or less expressive of the pathological condi- tions existing. Acute meningitis or phrenitis, due to exposure to the sun and the direct action of its rays upon the head, must be a very rare affection. In fact, I have no positive evidence to offer of its existence in nature, having never seen or read an unequiv- ocal record of such a case, and therefore will pass this theoretical class by without further allusion. Simple exhaustion, due to excessive labor in a