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Excerpt from Ten Lectures Introductory to the Study of Fever
These then are the causes of fever. Now let us ask, What is fever Here you observe we are altogether casting aside any nominal fever. We are not speaking of scarlet fever, of typhus fever, and so on; we are taking fever in the general. I daresay you are all aware that fever has been attributed by different authors to local affections; by some to affec tion of the head; by some - the Broussaists I mean to an affection of the intestines. Certainly local diseases may produce a febrile state. We have seen that in?ammation gives rise to fever; but this is not the fever of which we are now speaking. We speak now of idiopathic, or as some call it, essential fever; and there is no doubt whatever that idio pathic fever has a real existence, - that there is essential fever, - that there is fever which may kill a man without any local lesion whatever. There is not the least doubt of that. I have inspected the bodies of patients dying of typhus, and found no lesion whatever to which we could attribute the symptoms under which they laboured. Of course fever may become complicated; and in fatal cases it is probably for the most part complicated - with; affections of the lungs, of the bowels, of the throat.
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