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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 475 of 653precede epidemic cholera. Where intermittent fever is an entirelysporadic disease, its origin is still more obscure, as is the casus, for instance, in the city of Hanover.A special disposition to the disease is determined by age only in60 far that middle-aged, robust individuals are more exposed to texciting causes of the fever. In infancy intermittent fever is acomparatively rare disease. Tuberculosis is an almost certainguarantee against intermittent fever.663564 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.As regards the seasons, the disease occurs most frequently whenthe decay of vegetable matter is going on most extensively, namelin the months of April, May and June, in hot summers with copiousshowers of rain, likewise in very warm fall-months. Fever andague is least prevalent during the winter-months, in very coldweather and likewise in very warm, dry weather.Predisposing causes of fever and. ague are : errors in diet, cataof the digestive tract, colds, working all the time in wet placesThis last-mentioned circumstance is the reason why brickmakersare so readily attacked with fever and ague, even if the localitywhere they work is situated on high ground.One attack of fever and ague undoubtedly increases the disposition to have a second one; persons who move from perfectly healthinto malarious districts are likewise attacked much more readily,whereas a protracted sojourn in a malarious district diminishes tsusceptibility to the malarious miasm.To picture intermittent fever as it really exists, is a difficultundertaking ; in the first place, the disease of itself varies grin its manifestations; and in the next place the fever is greatlymodified by the employment of remedial agents. Inasmuch as thesedeviations from the normal form will have to be mentioned moreparticularly when we come to speak of the remedies for this feverwe here confine ourselves to a short description of the most essetial modifications.Uncomplicated, genuine intermittent fever is characterized byparoxysms of chill, heat and sweat, returning at regular intervaland separated from each other by a more or less complete apyrexiaThe first paroxysm is very generally preceded by a more or lessdistinct preliminary stage lasting at times a day, at other timesweek and even longer, and not presenting any phenomena thatdefinitely point to intermittent fever. In sporadic cases especiaa gastro-intestinal catarrh with slight remittent fever is very ato run into fever and ague.The paroxysm is very frequently ushered in with a feeling ofhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt