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| Dedication | i. | |
| Preface | iii. | |
| CHAPTER I. | ||
| Further Investigation of Fever necessary | 1 | |
| Facilities afforded by the Fever Hospital for prosecuting the Study | 5 | |
| Antient Doctrines relative to the Nature and Seat of Fever | 7 | |
| Hippocrates, Galen, Sydenham | 8 | |
| Modern Doctrines relative to the Nature and Seat of Fever | 13 | |
| Cullen, Brown, Stoker, Burne, Clanny, Clutterbuck, Broussais | 14 | |
| Errors common to all these Theorists | 30 | |
| Questions to be solved before Fever can be understood | 33 | |
| Precise Object of Investigation | 34 | |
| Proper Mode of conducting it | 36 | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
| Varieties of Fever | 41 | |
| Common Phenomena | 42 | |
| Importance of analyzing the Assemblage of the Symptoms, in order to ascertain the Common Phenomena | 43 | |
| Results of the Analysis | 45 | |
| Organs always diseased in Fever | 48 | |
| Functions always deranged in Fever | 49 | |
| Fever not Inflammation | 50 | |
| Distinction between Fever and Inflammation | 52 | |
| Common Phenomena of Fever exemplified in Plague | 53 | |
| in Yellow Fever, | 54 | |
| in the Varieties of Fever of Great Britain | 54 | |
| Different Varieties produced by different Intensities | 58 | |
| Received Classification and Nomenclature defective | 60 | |
| What is really meant by Genera and Species of Fever | 70 | |
| True Principle of Arrangement | 71 | |
| CHAPTER III. | ||
| Of Synochus | 77 | |
| Division into Synochus Mitior and Gravior | 77 | |
| Succession of Phenomena in Synochus Mitior | 78 | |
| Indications afforded of Disease in the Nervous, Circulating, Secreting, and Excreting Systems | 81 | |
| Progress of Disease consists in progressive Increase in the Derangement of these Functions | 85 | |
| Phenomena of Recovery | 91 | |
| On what the Transition of Synochus Mitior into Synochus Gravior depends | 93 | |
| Classification according to the different Organs in which the several Affections have their Seat | 95 | |
| Synochus Gravior with Cerebral Affection | 96 | |
| Subacute Cerebral Affection | 96 | |
| Acute Cerebral Affection | 107 | |
| Cases illustrating Synochus Mitior | 112 | |
| Cases illustrating Synochus Gravior with Subacute Cerebral Affection | 114 | |
| Cases illustrating Synochus Gravior with Acute Cerebral Affection | 116 | |
| Synochus Gravior with Thoracic Affection | 120 | |
| Cases illustrating Thoracic Affection | 123 | |
| Synochus Gravior with Abdominal Affection | 128 | |
| Cases illustrating Abdominal Affection | 137 | |
| Synochus Gravior with Mixed Affection | 142 | |
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| Of Typhus | 148 | |
| Division into Typhus Mitior and Gravior | 149 | |
| Typhus Mitior, with Subacute Cerebral Affection | 149 | |
| Cases illustrating Subacute Cerebral Affection | 155 | |
| Typhus Mitior, with Thoracic Affection | 157 | |
| Typhus Mitior, Cases illustrating Affection | 159 | |
| With Abdominal Affection | 161 | |
| With Mixed Affection | 162 | |
| Typhus Gravior | 162 | |
| In what it really consists | 162 | |
| Dangerous nature of the Error that it consists in Debility | 164 | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| Of Scarlatina | 168 | |
| Characters by which it is distinguished from Continued Fever without an Eruption | 168 | |
| Division into Scarlatina Synochodes | 171 | |
| Typhodes | 172 | |
| Events which occasionally occur in Fever, but which form no essential part of it | 173 | |
| Preternatural Sensibility over the external Surface of the Body; Excoration and Sloughing; Erysipelas; Inflammation, &c. of the Glands; peculiar Affection of the Joints | 173 | |
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| Of the Pathology of Fever | 176 | |
| Importance of connecting the Symptoms with the States of the Organs | 176 | |
| Pathology of Fever comprehends the Morbid Changes that take place in the Solids and Fluids of the Body | 178 | |
| I. General Pathology of the Solids | 179 | |
| External Appearances of the Body after Death | 180 | |
| Morbid Appearances in the Head | 181 | |
| in the Thorax | 184 | |
| in the Abdomen | 187 | |
| I. Cases illustrating the Morbid Changes which take place within the Head, or Cerebral Cases | 193 | |
| 1. Vascularity of Brain, Spinal Cord, and Membranes, with Gelatinous or slight Serous Effusion | 193 | |
| 2. Vascularity of Brain, Membranes, &c. with Effusion of Coagulable Lymph and Formation of Pus | 204 | |
| 3. Vascularity of Brain, Membranes, &c. with copious Serous Effusion | 210 | |
| 4. Vascularity, &c. with Preternatural Firmness of Brain | 218 | |
| 5. Vascularity, &c. with softening of Brain | 224 | |
| General Results established by preceding Cases | 230 | |
| II. Cases illustrating the Morbid Changes which take place within the Chest, or Thoracic Cases | 235 | |
| III. Cases illustrating the Morbid Changes which take place within the Abdomen; or Abdominal Cases | 246 | |
| General Results established by preceding Cases | 287 | |
| IV. Cases illustrating the Morbid Changes which take place within the Head, Thorax, and Abdomen, in the same individual, or Mixed Cases | 291 | |
| General Conclusion | 322 | |
| II. Pathology of the Fluids in Fever | 328 | |
| CHAPTER VII. | ||
| Of the Relation between the Phenomena of Fever; or the Theory of the Disease | 333 | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | ||
| Of the Causes of Fever | 348 | |
| 1. Of the Immediate, or Exciting Cause of Fever | 348 | |
| 2. Of the Remote or Predisposing Causes of Fever | 369 | |
| CHAPTER IX. | ||
| Of the Treatment of Fever | 375 | |
| Modification of Treatment required in prominent Cerebral Affection | 398 | |
| Thoracic Affection | 403 | |
| Abdominal Affection | 405 | |
| Treatment of Scarlet Fever | 408 | |
| Treatment during Convalescence | 418 | |
| Appendix | 425 | |