fevered (feverd)

[ There was work to do, and the cold sea-air was cooling the fevered brain. W. Black, Macleod of Dare, xlii. feverefoxt, n. An obsolete variant of feverfew. glands. Persons between fifteen and thirty years of age seem to be most frequently attacked. A previous attack produces a certain but not complete protection. The contagium seems to be given off from the sick mainly by the stools. The contamination of food and drink seems to be the most important mode of ingre . Personal contact does not materially increase exposure. Typhoid fever is now believed to be caused by a microscopic para sitic organism or bacillus, in length about one third the diameter of a red blood-corpuscle, in thickne about one third of its length, with rounded ends, mobile, form ing spores at a temperature between 30° and 42° C., but the typhoid and malarial poisons. The term more often indicates a doubt whether the case is malarial or typhoid. - Typhus fever, a contagious fever which in typical cases presents the following features: A period of incubation of nine days or more, a sudden onset of fever, often with a chill, a period of continued fever with pains in the head, back, and limbs, dizzine , noise in the ears, frequent bronchitis, and enlarged spleen. An eruption appears on the third to the seventh day, in the form of small red spots, usually abundant over the trunk and limbs, which in two or three days more become hemorrhagic. In the second or third week the disease may terminate by a fall of temperature, which is usually quite rapid. Relapses are very rare. The mortality varies in different epidemics from 6 to 20 per cent. The most susceptible years are between the ages of twenty and forty. One attack affords considerable protection against a sec ond. For synonyms, see phrases above. - Urethral fever, fever ensuing on an operation on the urethra, such as pa ing a catheter. - Yellow fever, an infectious disease of warm climates, typical cases of which present the following features: After a period of incubation varying from a day to several weeks, the invasion begins suddenly with headache, pains in back and limbs, often distinct chill, nausea, often vomiting, inactive bowels, fever (pyrexia) usually high, a pulse-rate le than corresponds to the py rexia, sometimes vertigo, convulsions, delirium, and albuminuria. Following upon these symptoms, often after a lull and apparent beginning of recovery, may come exhaustion of the heart and nervous centers, bleeding from mucous membranes (giving rise to black vomit), jaundice, scanty urine, and albuminuria. The mortality in the better cla of private cases varies in the experience of different observers from 7 to 10 per cent. The autopsy reveals, in addition to the hemorrhages, congestion of the nervous centers, hypostatic congestion of the lungs, fatty degeneration of the heart and liver, and parenchymatous nephritis. The infectious principle is not yet (March, 1889) identified. It is to be inferred from analogy that it is probably a ptomaine-producing bacillus. It infects localities. In its spread from place to place human intercourse seems to be the efficient factor. It may be carried in clothes and other goods. Its development is favored by filth and repre ed by cold. Individuals are infected by being in an infected locality. Personal contact with the as Feverer.