One-day fever from tumor

Fevers following internal tumors are putrefactive, and are often accompanied by tabes. They are not among the one-day fevers. As for external tumors, for example, boils and abscesses, and, in particular, large tumors that form in the glandular organs and in the so-called loose meat, that is, for example, in the groin - from liver excess, under the armpit - from cardiac excess or under the ear - from cerebral excesses, then they are sometimes followed by one-day fevers. What reaches from them to the heart and heats it up must necessarily be warmth, either pure or with putrefaction. If it is only warmth, then the disease belongs to the genus of one-day fevers, and if it is warmth with putrefaction, then it belongs to the genus of fevers from internal tumors. Most of the fevers accompanying a tumor, arising from external causes - ulcers, jarab, pain, blow or fall, when the juices rush to the sore spot and are retained along the way in loose meat, belong to the genus one-day, and fevers with tumors from previous causes, for example , from overflow or former blockages - putrefactive. Fever accompanying a tumor is most often one-day, if the fever is a subsequent disease, and the tumor is the main one, and most often putrefactive, if the fever is the main disease, and the tumor is a subsequent one. However, the opposite also happens. Hippocrates calls such fevers bad, whether they last a day or not. Most often they accompany blood tumors, but sometimes they occur after erysipelas and similar diseases.

Signs. Their signs, as we mentioned, are a previous swelling and the fact that the face is swollen and more red than in a healthy state. There is no severe burning sensation from the heat, even when the heat is significant, because tumors of this kind are blood, unless, of course, the fever follows erysipelas; after an attack of such fevers, moisture appears, oozing from the body. The pulse is large, fast and frequent due to overflow and heat, and the urine is watery and white, since the juices are diverted to tumors and ulcers.

Treatment should begin first of all with bloodletting and relaxation, and also treat the tumor with appropriate means in this case. The patient is prescribed a light regime and is not allowed to drink wine at all; feed him only after the fever has completely subsided. It is necessary to prescribe medications that extinguish heat, cool and moisturize, and apply bandages cooled in the snow to the diseased swollen organ so as not to damage the tumor and not make it immature, but only to cool the paths between the tumor and the heart with cooling penetrating into the depths.