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Show Doctrines concerning Fever. Doctrines concerning Fever. not mistake their present condition, are so irre- surely pass them by, after giving a moment of coverably gone, that it remains only with the regretful admiration to the talents, by which some of them were constructed. historian of our,art to find them a place, where they may be deposited beside their deceased pre~ decessors, and to erect a decent monument to their memory. A knowledge of the electrico« chemical operations of life, or of those processes (by whatevcrnamc they may be called) which. produce the alterations of substance, incessantly going on throughout the animated machine, would doubtless throw light upon all, and par‘ Fatigue of mind, in the first place, induced by anxious examination of the pretentious of rival hypotheses, and afterwards disgust at finding that they yield no relief under the (lism tressing emergencies of our profession, have frequently engendered absolute despair respect" ing this great branch, if not the whole, of medical science; and for fear of meeting none ticularly upon febrile, disorders. Nay, it is pro» bably in vain to think ofan arrangement of facts but false lights, we adopt the expedient of shut- so copious as to deserve the name of theory, till. in speculations, that run astray merely from we have madegreat advances in such knowledge" pushing too far, need not to be followed by con- But what has hitherto been hazarded on the sequences so disheartening. We may yet hope to gain essentially, by adhering strictly to the comparison of symptoms, not only with one another, and with the effect of medicines, but change ofcomposition in the fluids and solids by fever, from the author's own conjectures inclu~ sive, down to the recent formidable labours of Dr. ‘w mum " 5‘ ting our eyes close. But the proof of fallacy with the appearances after death. So that, without relaxing in zeal, we have only to limit Reich (Fieber-Zel'zre in 2 east 81203. Berlin, 1805),, appears destitute alike of useful application and. of evidence. And if these systems have superx seded the investigation ofphenomena such :15, when once ascertained, strike the senses too powerfully to leave the judgment in suspence; verted; by the generality, they are but cursorily ifthey have prevented us from analysing the noted, and in the gross. mutual relations of these phenomena; if they they been sedulously examined, with a View to have tempted ingenuity to waste itself, upon fix the alterations proper to this class of com- the means of correcting imaginary deviations plaints, to invent methods for detecting such as from the standard state of health; 'we may are notimmediatelv obvious, and to connect the surely our endeavours by our powers. To the appearances after death, certain rea soners on fever seem not at all to have adv i BQ Seldom, indeed, have ' p whole, |