hyperpyrexia
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This striking fact is of much interest in its bearing on the theory of hyperpyrexia, and may possibly be explained by some marked difference in the conditions of heat-dispersion in these different diseases.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
These changes occur in most fevers, as typhus, small-pox, scarlet fever, and are attributed by authors generally to the hyperpyrexia which is a frequent accompaniment of these diseases.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
They probably act, therefore, by diminishing the metamorphosis of the tissues, and the consequent loading of the blood with excrementitious products which the hyperpyrexia has a tendency to promote.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In still other cases the symptoms resemble those which occur in extreme hyperpyrexia dependent upon overwhelming and paralysis of the nervous centres.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Young children only are in danger of death from convulsions or a rapid tissue-degeneration due to hyperpyrexia.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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