An inquiry into the seat and nature of fever; as deducible from the phenomena, causes, and consequences of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection. In two parts. Part the first. Containing the general doctrine of fever / [Henry Clutterbuck].

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856
Date:
1807
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Credit: An inquiry into the seat and nature of fever; as deducible from the phenomena, causes, and consequences of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection. In two parts. Part the first. Containing the general doctrine of fever / [Henry Clutterbuck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pears objectionable ; as there may be many intervening changes between the applica- tion of the caufe, ae the produétion of the obvious effects, or fymptoms. ‘Thus when catarrh is produced by cold applied to the furface of the body, the cold is the remote _caufe; inflammation of the mucous mem- brane of the refpiratory paflages is the dif- eafe (often improperly called the /roximate caufe); while the cough, pain in the cheft, and expectoration, are the frimary [ympioms. But there are evidently, in this as in other cafes, fome intermediate changes taking: place between the application of the re- mote caufe and the difeafe, and which we are often unable to trace. 32. Secondary fymptoms are thofe which arife out of the frimary, of which they are to the exciting caufe. They have been called genes Sympiomatum*, the fymp- toms of fymptoms ; and of fuch there may be various gradations arifing out of one ano- ther in fucceflion. 33. By the term frofer, are underftood thofe fymptoms which are peculiar to any .