Copy 1, Volume 1

The study of medicine. Improved from the author's manuscripts, and by reference to the latest advances in physiology, pathology, and practice / [John Mason Good].

  • Good, John Mason, 1764-1827
Date:
1834
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    e CL. TIL] SANGUINEOUS FUNCTION. [orp. 1, 677 SPECIES I. ENECIA CAUMA. INFLAMMATORY FEVER. HEAT GREATLY INCREASED}; PULSE QUICK, HARD, AND STRONG; URINE RED; DISTURBANCE OF THE MIND SLIGHT. Tuts species has been distinguished by a variety of names by dif- Gen. IV. ferent nosologists and other medical writers: the chief of which ,). Src. Ui ‘ ‘ ee : : , stinguished are, imputrid synochus, which is that of Galen; tmputrid continued yy various Sever, which is that of Boerhaave; imputrid continent, which is that names, of Lommius; sanguineous continued fever, which is that of Hoff- man; and synocha, which is that of Sauvages, Linnéus, Cullen, and most writers of the present day. Of these, synocha, for reasons of which the stated in the comment to the Nosological Synopsis, is the worst; worst is it has no clear or correct etymological meaning; it has been used synocha. in different senses by different writers, and approaches so nearly to synochus, used ag extensively by most of the same writers, as to create a perpetual confusion in the minds of young students ; and the more so, as the disease before us is expressly denominated ‘synochus by Vogel, whilst most writers employ this term to import a different species of fever. On all which accounts, I have judged And hence ex- it right to exchange synocha for cauma, aterm already employed changed above for the same purpose by Dr. Young, and which, derived from, aia, for cauma. “uro,” is etymologically significant of the character of the disease it designates. The common English term inflammatory fever is excellent ; and is, in truth, a direct translation of the Greek term cauma. Dr. Fordyce denominates it general inflammation: by Importing which he clearly intimates, that-this species of fever bears a near general inflam- resemblance to the symptomatic fever produced by the local affec- a tions, called phlegmasic, or phlogotica, which constitute the next jon efor it order of the present class, to which the term znflammations is now commonly limited; but which Dr. Fordyce would distinguish by the term “ local inflammations.” In effect, inflammatory fever and the fever of inflammations bear Difference be- the same relations to each other, as the idiopathic and symptomatic Ribas hectic: in both, there may be a general or a local remote cause ; and fores Ga but, the influence upon the constitution will be the same, whatever fammations. be the source of excitement. It has been doubted, however, whether it whether cauma or inflammatory fever ever exists without a local exists, except cause; and Dr. Cullen, who does not allow that hectic fever is from a local ever found without a local cause, distinctly affirms, that he has C4¥se never seen inflammatory fever existing under the same circum- /10¢a? caus stances: whence Dr. Clarke, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who has too ioe a much generalised the subject, has struck inflammatory fever entirely templated by out of the list of diseases, contending, that even the term inflam- different sup- matory ought never to be applied to fever, excepting when fever porters of this itself only exists as a concomitant of some local affection *: while doctrine. Local cause * Observations on Fevers, &c. 8vo. London, 1779. Though Dr. Tweedie does not distinctly represent this fever as being essentially connected with local xk 3