It is probable that the death of the patient on the fifth day is to be attributed to a phrenitis, with unfavorable evacuations. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
Persons laboring under phrenitis and causus were particularly disposed to coma; but also in all other great diseases which occurred along with fever. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
It is probable that the weakness produced by the fever, the phrenitis, and affection of the hypochondrium caused death on the hundred and twentieth day. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
And many were attacked with impairment or loss of speech; at first, those in the commencement of phthisis, but also persons in ardent fever and in phrenitis. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
Acute diseases are those which the ancients named pleurisy, pneumonia, phrenitis, lethargy, causus, and the other diseases allied to these, including the continual fevers. From Wordnik.com. [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference
The cases of ardent fever and phrenitis occurred early in spring after the cold set in, and great numbers were taken ill at that time, and these cases were attended with acute and fatal symptoms. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
He found in his autopsy observations confirmation of this view and concludes that "madness is to phrenitis what pulmonary consumption is to pneumony, that is, a chronic state of an acute disease.". From Wordnik.com. [A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921] Reference
In those cases in which the phrenitis did not begin immediately, but about the third or fourth day, the disease was moderate at the commencement, but assumed a violent character about the seventh day. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
About the equinox, and until the season of the Pleiades, and at the approach of winter, many ardent fevers set in; but great numbers at that season were seized with phrenitis, and many died; a few cases also occurred during the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
She was in the first stages of phrenitis, or inflammation of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car 1898] Reference
In no malady does a horse suffer more than in phrenitis, or inflammation of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car 1898] Reference
"We shall have this fellow in phrenitis, or laryngitis, or dothenenteritis, or some other itis, before long, if he's aggravated.". From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
(Like so much else, Greeks invented frenzy and its spinoff, frenetic; they come from phrenitis, "madness" or "delirium of the brain."). From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Alexander has much to say with regard to phrenitis, a febrile condition complicated by delirium, which, following Galen, he considers an affection of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference
It sometimes becomes too acute, and this may arise either from too great an irritability of the whole nervous system, which often occurs in hysteria, also in phrenitis, and some fevers; or from an inflamed state of the ear itself. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
His wife, who had long been the victim of low spirits, was seized, towards the end of 1610, with fever, epilepsy, and phrenitis, and before she had completely recovered, all his three children were simultaneously attacked with the smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler] Reference
The sense of smell sometimes becomes too acute, either from a vitiated state of the organ itself, which is not often the case; or from an increased sensibility or irritability of the whole nervous system, which is observed in hysteria, phrenitis, and some fevers. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
The eagerness with which, when labouring under phrenitis, he strikes at everything with his foot, or rushes upon it to seize it with his teeth!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
1610, with the Hungarian fever, epilepsy and phrenitis. From Wordnik.com. [Kepler]
To persons beyond that age, asthma, pleurisy, pneumonia, lethargy, phrenitis, ardent fevers, chronic diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, lientery, hemorrhoids. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
In the department of neurology Gilbert, after a philosophical discussion of the nature and variety of pain, devotes considerable chapters to the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of headache, hemicrania, epilepsy, catalepsy, analepsy, cerebral congestion, apoplexy and paralysis, phrenitis, mania and melancholia, incubus or nightmare, lethargy and stupor, lippothomia or syncope, sciatica, spasm, tremor, tetanus, vertigo, wakefulness, and jectigation. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
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