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NOTE XXVI. FEVERS
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putridity is the cause, while the hurt thereof is through the intervention
of that heat which is produced from it. Arid the natural functions,
wherein the hurt of fr)ver becomes apparent, are such as the appetke for,
food and wine, digestion, rising up, sitting down, going, eating, sexual
intercourse, and the like thereof."
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The next (second) chapter, deals with the different kinds of fever,
and is too long (3 pages) to be translated in Tull here. The human Body
'.is Compounded of three sorts of substances; (i) basic tissues such as
the bones, nerves and blood-vessels; (2) the marrow of the bones, the
blood, and other liquids contained in the
vessels and cavities of the
body, such as the phlegm, bile and black bile, known as the 'humours';
(3) the natural, animal or vital, and psychic spirits, and the vapours
diffused throughout the body.' This composite body the ancients have
likened to a hot bath, whereof the walls, bricks and stones are represented
by the bones, nerves and bloocVvessels the water ; by the marrow, the
blood, aad the humours and the steam ; by the natural, animal and
psychic spirits, and the vapours. When the heat of the fever attacks the
basic tissues of the it body, is like the heat of the finj affecting the walls,
jtones and bricks of the hot bath ; and this kind of fever is called
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hectic '
(diqq). When it first attacks the humours and subsequently the
basic tissues, it is like the hotjwater being let into the chambers of the
bath and heating the walls and this kind of fever is called 'humoristic'
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(khaltiyya). When it attacks the spirit and the vapours, which in turn
heat the humours and the tissues, it is like the hot air in the bath heating
in turn the water and the walls thereof and this kind of fever is called
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Arab, hummd yawm"'\
'quotidian' (Pers. tab-i-yak-ruza ;
This is one classification. Another is into '
simple '
(basft) and
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compound '
(murakkab\ according as one humour only is involved, or
more than one. Thirteen kinds of fever are recognized, viz. :
(1) That which is in itself an independent disease.
(2) That which is the symptom of some other disease.
(3) Very high
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fever called acute '
(hddda).
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The slower and heavier fever called chronic '
>(5) That which attacks by day.
(6j That which attacks by night.
(7) That which passes 'away easily.
(muzmina).
(8) 'Fevers which are fierce in their onset and accompanied by
alarming symptoms.
(9) Continjous'fevers (Idzim or mutbiqa).
(10) Non-continuous fevers (muftira).
(n) old fevers.
(12) Fevers accompanied by rigors (Pers. larza; Arab, ndfid, ra'da).
(13.) Fevers accompanied by 'goose-skin' (Pers. fardshd; Arab.
qash'artra).
T,hese, says the author, are the broad general divisions,' each of
which contains subdivisions which will be treated of in subsequent
chapters. Fevers of the type called " putrid " l
( q/!n, in Persian ganda or
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