Quotation from: Manual of SurgeryWritten by: Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson |
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Except in very severe cases, shock tends towards recovery within a few hours, the _reaction_, as it is called, being often ushered in by vomiting. The colour improves; the pulse becomes full and bounding; the respiration deeper and more regular; the temperature rises to 100 F. or higher; and the patient begins to take notice of his surroundings. The condition of neurasthenia which sometimes follows an operation may be associated with the degenerative changes in nerve cells described by Crile.
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