Download or read book The Illinois and Indiana Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2 written by James V. Z. Blaney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Illinois and Indiana Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2: April, 1874 Experience also proves that those local determinations so often witnessed in fever, in which the brain, the liver, the spleen, and sometimes the lungs, are made the passive recipi ents of a larger quantity of blood than they are wont to contain, are best removed by agents which promptly control the fever, and that any treatment of the local affection, unless accom panied by that which will cut short the fever, or tend to do it, will be ineffectual, and that as often as a remission or a chill followed by a febrile paroxysm is allowed to recur, there is great danger of an aggravation of the local plethora, and risk, also, of the formation of new congestions, disturbing the action of organs whose functions are essential to life. And if these congestions are passive - and passive they must be to be removed by brandy, quinia, and opium, assisted, when the brain is affected, by cold, which probably acts as anindi rect stimulant upon the blood-vessels - in what are they radi cally different from those general internal congestions which take place every time a chill occurs, and which, in the cases manifesting the greatest {sinking tendency, are not entirely recovered from with the re-action which follows? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.