Identifier: practicaltreatis1894muss (find matches)
Title: A practical treatise on medical diagnosis : for students and physicians
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Musser, John Herr, 1856-1912
Subjects: Diagnosis Diagnosis
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea Brothers & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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hoid THE DATA OBTAINED BY OBSERVATION. 113 fever and of relapsing fever the type is intermitting or paroxysmal.The same type of fever is seen (2) in suppuration, particularly if thepus is confined; (3) iu ulcerative endocarditis; (4) in tuberculosis, a.This may occur in tuberculosis in the earlier stages. The primary seat Fig. 7. 0 M J E 1 M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E —>»< I 1 , ft ; 1 (1 - A I 1 1 t x A , TnT° 1 fl 1 1 \ u ^ 1 n 1 r / A 1 A /\ / 1 1 v 1 / \ 1 I \ \, 1 1 1 rr \/ A 1 I \/ /\ \ t j / ; V _1 \ J n_ n 1 1 1 n / 1 1 i 1 11 it 4 1 V I i v 1 y I 9b- T ; V 1 T J I t r i i Intermitting fever of tuberculosis. of the lesion may be in the lungs, in the bones, or in the glands. 6. Inpulmonary tuberculosis, after the formation of a cavity, intermittingfever is of common occurrence. It is then of septic origin due to theseptic influence of the necrosed tissue and products of putrefaction inthe cavity. (See Fig. 7.) Fig. 8.
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Continued fever of tuberculosis. (5) In lymphadenoma and anosmia the fever is at times paroxysmal.(6) In syphilis the same type is often seen. It may be noted (a) in theinitial fever; (6) in the tertiary periods of the disease where gummata haveformed or other forms of visceral syphilis have developed. (7) Urinaryintermitting fever is the form which usually occurs after the passage of a 114 GENERAL DIAGNOSIS. catheter or sound, but it may also occur when there is suppuration inthe genito-urinary tract. (8) Hepatic intermitting fever is a form offrequent occurrence and ot great diagnostic importance. It may bedue to the presence (a) of gall-stones somewhere in the biliary ducts,usually with obstruction; (6) to the presence of suppuration in the canalwith or without obstruction; (c) to the obstruction of the biliary pas-sages by external pressure without the occurrence of suppuration; (d)inflammatory affections of the liver, as abscess, and forms of cirrhosis.Rarely it occurs in rapidly

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