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| Dedication | i. |
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| Preface | iii. |
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| CHAPTER I. |
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| Further Investigation of Fever necessary | 1 |
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| Facilities afforded by the Fever Hospital for prosecuting the Study | 5 |
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| Antient Doctrines relative to the Nature and Seat of Fever | 7 |
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| Hippocrates, Galen, Sydenham | 8 |
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| Modern Doctrines relative to the Nature and Seat of Fever | 13 |
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| Cullen, Brown, Stoker, Burne, Clanny, Clutterbuck, Broussais | 14 |
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| Errors common to all these Theorists | 30 |
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| Questions to be solved before Fever can be understood | 33 |
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| Precise Object of Investigation | 34 |
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| Proper Mode of conducting it | 36 |
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| CHAPTER II. |
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| Varieties of Fever | 41 |
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| Common Phenomena | 42 |
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| Importance of analyzing the Assemblage of the Symptoms, in order to ascertain the Common Phenomena | 43 |
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| Results of the Analysis | 45 |
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| Organs always diseased in Fever | 48 |
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| Functions always deranged in Fever | 49 |
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| Fever not Inflammation | 50 |
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| Distinction between Fever and Inflammation | 52 |
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| Common Phenomena of Fever exemplified in Plague | 53 |
| in Yellow Fever, | 54 |
| in the Varieties of Fever of Great Britain | 54 |
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| Different Varieties produced by different Intensities | 58 |
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| Received Classification and Nomenclature defective | 60 |
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| What is really meant by Genera and Species of Fever | 70 |
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| True Principle of Arrangement | 71 |
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| CHAPTER III. |
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| Of Synochus | 77 |
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| Division into Synochus Mitior and Gravior | 77 |
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| Succession of Phenomena in Synochus Mitior | 78 |
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| Indications afforded of Disease in the Nervous, Circulating, Secreting, and Excreting Systems | 81 |
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| Progress of Disease consists in progressive Increase in the Derangement of these Functions | 85 |
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| Phenomena of Recovery | 91 |
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| On what the Transition of Synochus Mitior into Synochus Gravior depends | 93 |
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| Classification according to the different Organs in which the several Affectio
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