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Download or read book The Universal Medical Journal, 1893, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Universal Medical Journal, 1893, Vol. 1 These classes of typhoid (as distinct from those in which there is an incubation period following upon some real or assumed toxic material taken as food or drink) are, I am convinced, Of far more common occurrence than' Is usually supposed. They are cases of nervous origin, and they commence, as I emphatically believe, within the body without any introduction of specific virus. Whether they become themselves contagious by elimination of toxic product I am not sure, but the probability is strongly in favor of that view. All the symptoms that lead to what is called typhoid convey, to my mind, its nervous origin. I should consider it to be a paresis, affecting the intestinal sympathetic nervous system. I see no other way of accounting for the lenticular rash and for the distinguishing aberrations connected with the digestive system. The fever is, to me, as the radiation from relaxed vessels surcharged with blood. The exhaustion is exhaustion due to the dissipation of radiant vital heat, and, if there be a modified zymosis, owing to the presence of fermentative substance, that I should take to mean a substance itself generated by the nervous disturbance. 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.