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 ?