Mucus fever

You already know that fever from putrefaction of mucus can be recurrent, and sometimes persistent; The reason for this is also known to you. This fever, like others, has Periods: the shortest period of its onset is most often eighteen days, and its eradication lasts in most cases from forty to sixty days. The safest is mucous fever with clearly expressed weaknesses and, especially, with profuse sweat: this indicates fluid and poverty of matter and looseness of the body. The period of rise with this disease is longest, although the period of decline is also much longer than with three-day fever.

Decayed mucus is sometimes glassy, ​​sometimes sour, sometimes sweet, sometimes salty; You already know how salty mucus causes a burning fever. Most often, mucous fever occurs in people with a damp nature, in idle people, in old people, in children, in those suffering from indigestion, in those who exercise or bathe after being overfilled, and in people who have sour eructations; It also happens when there is overflow, if the overflowing substances descend into the stomach and rot there. With mucous fever, things rarely happen without pain at the mouth of the stomach. Know that with any fever accompanied by cold, the cold makes the pulse compressed and small.

Signs of periodic mucous fever, called hymitritis. If the cause is vitreous or acidic mucus, then the cold with it intensifies, and the chill with vitreous mucus is also stronger, but the cold does not begin suddenly, but little by little in the extremities and then reaches the point that the body becomes cold as snow, and It is only with difficulty that it warms up, and it does not warm up immediately and not with continuous gradualness, but little by little, with returns of the cold. Often goose bumps are first associated with the cold; cold comes from mucus that has not yet rotted, and goose bumps come from mucus that has already rotted. Coldness and chills are most severe during attacks in the period of extremes.

Such a fever does not come from matter that produces a tingling sensation and then gives rise to chills due to the shaking out of juices, for the putrefaction in this case is the putrefaction of a soft substance. It takes away, causing heaviness in the head and hibernation, and often at the first attacks it begins without cold and chills; on the contrary, the chills are delayed for some time. Often there is cold and no chills, and often the fever begins with fainting, although sometimes this does not happen. With this disease, fainting often occurs due to weakness of the mouth of the stomach, loss of appetite and lack of assimilation of food, which prepares the matter of nutrients for use and renews strength.

As for fever from salty mucus, it is preceded by goose bumps, but the cold is not very strong, and with fever from fresh mucus at first, during many attacks, they are rarely preceded by goose bumps and there is neither cold nor chills.

Most attacks of mucus fever begin with fainting; sometimes with such a fever, the heat appears stronger at first, and decreases at the end; the reason for this, apparently, is that putrefaction first begins in a substance that is fresher, more salty or more liquid, and then passes on to something thicker and colder. The heat when touched at first seems weak, steamy, then, if you hold your hand on the body longer, you feel the sharpness and burning heat, which, however, are dissimilar and unequal over the entire surface of the body, which the hand touches, but are different - in one place a sharp heat is felt, in another - weak. The heat seems to be sifted through something lattice-like, for the mucus is viscous and, to varying degrees, amenable to heat and liquefaction; This happens with all viscous substances when boiling - they burst in one place and do not burst in another place. Be that as it may, the heat of mucous fever is not so strong as to cause burning and melancholy. The patient greatly craves cold air and cold water, but he does not want to open up, rush about and take deep, inflating breaths. Often the fever persists for quite a considerable time, an hour or two, and they think that the disease has reached its limit, but it turns out that it is still growing, because you see that it is starting to intensify again. The same stops occur during a recession.

Mucous fevers greatly moisturize the skin due to the abundance of fluid, but their vapors cause little real perspiration due to the viscosity of the juice, and if they drive sweat, then something insignificant is released: one of the surest special indications of mucous fever is the scarcity or absence of perspiration. Thirst during mucous fevers is small, unless they are caused by salinity or great putrefaction of the mucus, but even in this case the thirst is less than with other fevers. Swelling of the sides is often observed in such patients; It happens that the skin on the side becomes thinner from tension.

As for the complexion of a patient with mucous fever, its whiteness is cast with blue and yellowness and in general it turns out to be the color of lead, which persists even in the period of extremes; the face rarely turns red as it does during the extreme period of other fevers. The pulse of such a patient is weak, low, small. It's rare at first

and in the end it becomes more frequent, and its frequency and smallness are more significant than the frequency and smallness of a four-day or three-day fever. The high pulse rate comes from its significant smallness, but it is not faster than the four-day pulse; and sometimes, at first, even slower or the same and, in addition, very uneven in the absence of order; In young and weak patients, the irregularity of the pulse is greater. Indications of mucous fever by the pulse are among its surest signs.

As for urine, at first, due to the abundance of blockages and from the cold, it is white and liquid, then, due to putrefaction, it turns red, and due to low maturity it becomes cloudy. Often the quality of urine changes from time to time: when only a thick part of the matter remains, and the rotten part dissolves and blockages form again, the urine turns white, and then, when a large amount of matter rots, rushes into the vessels and opens the blockages, it turns red and remains red until until the same thick juice returns to the site of blockage and clogs the vessels a second time. The stool in such patients is soft, liquid, and mucous.

One of the indications of mucous fever is that its attack lasts eighteen hours, and it leaves the patient for six hours, but its cessation is not a complete cessation, for the matter, with its thickness and viscosity, is abundant. Sometimes mucous fever is also indicated by the age and habits of the patient, time of year, area, food and traces of such previous causes as indigestion. It is also indicated by appearance - the above-mentioned complexion, its swelling, softness of the skin to the touch, as well as weakness of the mouth of the stomach and loss of appetite. Sometimes with such fever the spleen becomes enlarged; in most cases it is long preceded by a sour belch.

Signs of persistent fever, which is called wet, are the presence of all the signs of mucous fever, except for the cessation or something similar to the cessation of attacks and except for chills, coldness and goose bumps at their onset. It is most similar to tabes and with it there is a weakening of attacks after six hours or so, more significant than with recurrent. With relapsing fever, remnants of bad matter are also necessarily preserved, but they are hidden and not obvious.

Fevers, most often belonging to the mucous membranes, and sometimes arising from bile, but not those that arise from black bile. They are given special names and have special qualities. These are epialus and lipiria fevers. They belong to the group of fevers that differ in the sensation of heat and cold inside or outside, depending on the location of the decaying and non-decaying matter. There are three types of such fevers; These also include fever, especially called fainting fever, day fever and night fever.