Identifier: principlespract00osle (find matches)
Title: The principles and practice of medicine, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Edinburgh London : Young J. Putland, c1892
Contributing Library: Dentistry - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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150 SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES. hour to three or four hours. The patient is intensely thirsty and drinkseagerly of cold water. Sweating Stage.—Beads of perspiration appear upon the face andgradually the entire body is bathed in a copious sweat. The uncomforta-ble feeling associated with the fever disappears, the headache is relieved,and within an hour or two the paroxysm is over and the patient usuallysinks into a refreshing sleep. The sweating varies much. It may bedrenching in character or it may be slight. Chart XI is a fac-simile of a ward temperature chart in a case oftertian ague. The duration of the paroxysms on February 1st, 3d, and5th was from twelve to sixteen hours. Quinine in two-grain doses wasgiven on the 5th and was sufficient to prevent the on-coming paroxysmson the 7th, though the temperature rose to 100-5°. The small doses, how-eyer, were not effective, and on the 9th he had a severe chill. The total duration of the paroxysm is from twelve to fifteen hours, butm

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