Essays on Fever

What is fever? Body temperature is regulated by the hypothalamus, a specialised group of neurones which act to control the bodies “set point”. It can modulate various body mechanisms in order to maintain this physiological set point e. g behavioural and physiological responses. Fever is…

Case Study 1 – Endocrine, integumentary and neurovascular disorders Q1) Diabetes Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes where the pancreas can still produce insulin however the body loses the ability to use the insulin it produces effectively, this is called insulin resistance,…

Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia, as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with a fever and muscle ache. Then, targets often become jaundiced; this is where…

The book I read was Fever 1793. It is a nonfictional book that describes what happens during a girl’s life when the Yellow Fever strikes Philadelphia. Once I started reading this book it seemed as if the author made it so that after each chapter…

Enteric fever, caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi, has a long history and effect on human lives. Chronicled records show us an incredible arrangement about typhoid fever—the high sickness load and lethal results of the infection; the real courses of transmission;…