What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription
Section 33 — Fever, Chill and Sweat
James Tyler Kent · What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription · 41 passages
Where have you flushes of heat ?
Have you flashes of heat and chill inter ingled or alternating ?
Give location and time when either comes on.
Is there shuddering ?
Are you inclined to be chilly generally or in special parts ?
Where does the chilliness, or chill, begin and what course does it take ?
Do you like or desire the warmth or heat of the stove, sun or wraps ?
Do you feel better when warm or cold ?
Do you have thirst with the chill, fever or sweat ?
Do you have hunger with the chill, fever or sweat ?
At what time of day. or night does the chill, fever or sweat come on ?
At what time is either the highest ?
At what time is either the lowest ?
What seems to cause the chill, fever or sweat ?
Have you coldness (other than chill) internally or externally ?
Does any other complaint or sickness come on during the chill, fever or sweat ?
How long does the chill, fever or sweat continue ?
In intermittent fever (ague) do you have a distinct stage of chill, fever and sweat ?
How do you feel generally between the chill, fever and sweat, or after either ?
When having intermittent fever (ague) do you have hours or days when ,feeling perfectly well ?
Is one part hot while another part is cold ?
Do you have a chill as to any specified hour or day ?
Which predominates, or is worse, the chill, fever or sweat ?
Is the skin hot, dry, moist, red, pale, cool or purple with the fever ?
Is there goose flesh with the chill or chilliness ?
What is the condition of the flesh during the sweat ?
What is the pulse rate ?
Is the pulse full, bounding, ready, skipping a beat, imperceptible, compressible. ?
Is sweat local or general over the body ?
Does any particular part or place sweat at any time ?
Do the covered or uncovered parts sweat ?
Is the sweat warm, cold, sticky, musty, clammy, foul, greasy, pungent smell, sour ?
What is the color ?
What color does it stain the clothing ?
Is sweat weakening ?
How do you feel during and after sweat ?
Do you sweat easily ?
Where, on what part do you sweat most ?
Mention any other peculiarity of the chill, fever or sweat. Have you ever had ague ?
When, how long, and what medicine was taken for the ague ?
Have you been well since having the ague ?