Lectures on the Study of Fever (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hudson, Alfred

9781330837931: Lectures on the Study of Fever (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lectures on the Study of Fever

The primary object of your examination of a patient is to asoer tain the nature and extent of the deviations from health in the several functions, and the changes, if any, in the physical condition of the several organs. Your ability to undertake this task pre supposes an acquaintance with the body in health in the most com prehensive sense; with the laws of healthy function; and with the physical signs by which you ascertain the healthy condition of the viscera of the chest and abdomen, their bulk, situation, and relation to each other. To these you refer as standards of comparison in your examination of the same organs in disease. This last is a preli minary qualification so, easy of acquirement, and, at the same time, so neglected by students, that I may be excused for pressingit upon your attention. The value of all physical signs depends on com parison with healthy standards. Alterations in the shape of one side-of the chest, dulness on percussion, absence or change of re spiratory sounds, also of the sounds of the heart in different situa tions, are all determined by comparison; first, with corresponding parts in the same individual, but ultimately, though tacitly and. Instinctively, as it were, with standards consisting of our memory' of the healthy signs. And yet'how often does some student 'press forward to the bedside, that he may listen to diseased phenomena, who has never heard the sounds of the heart or lung in health.

The same rule applies to the derangements of function. To' observe these with accuracy, you must be familiarly acquainted with their healthy exercise, and, cetert's paribus, the student whose knowledge of physiology is the most perfect will excel as an oh server of disease - as a pathologist in the true meaning of the term.

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Excerpt from Lectures on the Study of Fever

It has long appeared to me that the student usually has a less clear idea of fever than of any disease which he meets with in the wards of the hospital. The difficulty he experiences may arise partly from the want of correspondence of the particular case before him with the description of some form of fever from which he has obtained his ideal, and partly from his not possessing the key, so to speak, to its solution in a knowledge of fever in the abstract, of its laws, and of the phenomena which are common to all types of the disease. It is true he has in the great work of Murchison the fullest and most comprehensive descriptions of every form of continued fever, but I cannot but regard these distinct treatises (for such they are) as much more likely to be useful as a future work of reference, than to serve as a guide to the early study of a complex and difficult subject like fever.

The object I have had in view in delivering the ensuing Lectures to the students of the Meath Hospital, and in now publishing them, is to furnish the student with a guide to his bedside analysis of each case, by treating of febrile phenomena in succession; first, generally or abstractedly, and secondly, in their relation to each form of the disease. Thus forming in his mind an ideal of fever, such as he may readily apply to the case before him, and which he may certainly find to conform to that case, be it of what species, or how complicated soever it may.

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