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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