Elements of the Practice of Physic Author:John Gregory Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the functions. From thefe Fever may be defined. u. The other fymptoms commonly attendant on Fever, are, lofs of appetite, nau- fea, thirft, anxiety, laffit... more »ude, quick wafting of the fat, irregular determinations of the blood and nervous power, want of fleep, or the fleep difturbed, and not refrefhing. A fenfation of coldnefs with trembling, fuc- ceeded by a hot fit, is one of the moft frequent fymptoms in the beginning of fevers, from whence their commencement is generally reckoned. But this fymptom is fome- times wanting, is often inconfiderable, irregular in its return; and the violence of the fucceeding heat, and other fymptoms, are not in proportion to it. 12. Fevers are diftinguifhed into 1. Intermittent; where there is a perfect apyrexia between the paroxyfms. 2. Continued; which proceed without any exacerbation and remimon of the fymptoms, chapter{Section 4at leaft, without any that are remarkable and, regular. 3. Remittents ; where there is a diftinc't remiffion of the fymptoms at regular periods, though without any perfect apyrexia. 4. Fevers attended with a cutaneous erup- .tion ; Exanthematous. 5.. Fevers diftinguifhed by topical affection, particularly pain, and proceeding from topical inflammation ; Phlegmafiae. 13. A fudden favourable termination of a fever, ufually called a Crifis, happens moft frequently in confequence of fome fenfible evacuation, cutaneous eruption, or fuppura- tion. Sometimes the fever gradually abates, without any fuch fenfible crifis, fqmetimes. changes into another difeafe, 14. The crifes offerers have been often obferved to happen on particular days, (reckoning from the invafion of the fever) j fhence called Critical days. 15. The exacerbations and remiffions of fevers often return at regular periods. In par...« less