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Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
page 31 of 105 (29%)
too Gilbert was careful and intelligent, and upon this branch of
therapeutics he justly laid great emphasis.

The first book of the Compendium, comprising no less than 75 folios,
is devoted entirely to the discussion of fevers. Beginning with the
definition of Joannicius (Honain ebn Ishak):

"Fever is a heat unnatural and surpassing the course of nature,
proceeding from the heart into the arteries and injuring the patient
by its effects."

Gilbert launches out with genuine scholastic finesse and verbosity
into a discussion of the questions whether this definition is based
upon the essentia or the differentia of fever; whether the heat of
fever is natural or unnatural, and other similar subtle speculations,
and finally arrives at a classification of fevers so elaborate and
complex as to be practically almost unintelligible to the modern
reader.

The more important of these fevers or febrile conditions are:

Ephemeral
Hemitertian
Double quartan
Interpolated
Synocha
Causon synochides
Epilala
Quotidian
Double tertian
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