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Show |W INDIA quickened pulse, together with a more intense effect in a part or parts, as we see in cases of catarrh and rheumatism. At other times, general affection shall arise, a considerable time . is not to he decided by such controversial wea-- pons, as the armoury of medicine can, at present, 7 before the appearance of symptoms of local SUpply. But granting, that upon a fair trial'of their temper, they prove deficient, I know no- inflammation. Of this, an immense variety of examples, particularly in pleurisy, might be atl- thing more likely to induce persons, capable of feeling for their profession and their species, duced, from the disciples ofdifferent schools, and from independent observers. Of the fact, Brown to bestir themselves to provide better. eagerly availed himself, in proof of the unity and indivisibility of that property of the living system, which he calls excitability. is the most familiar case. The third Local inflamma- tion shall occur by itself; and then, increasing IL-"CONNECTION OF FEVER ‘VITH by degrees, symptomatic fever shall follow. INFLAMMATION. BEFORE I engage in a more rigorous analy« sis, let me recapitulate some few, generally apprea bended, circumstances. Inflammation and ulcers of extensive, important, or deep-seated parts, are attended with alteration in the pulse, in the heat of the body, in the sensations referred to the skin, and indeed in the feelings altogether. These alterations constitute the symptoms of hectic, or mere largely speaking, symptomatic Thus we have quickened pulse, with shiverings and flushing, when the stomach is inflamed from poison,-the kidneys from a stone,---a bowel from strangulation,-or the gums from a carious tooth. So much are we accustomed to see ge» neral supervening upon local affection, that chills, succeeded by beats, are reckoned among the diagnostic signs of deep-seated inflammao tion. How the susceptibility of distant organs is changed, we are entirely ignorant. fever. It would seem that fever and local inflammation may simultaneously arise, from a single impression. Sudden variations of temperature Will produce universal shiverings, beats, and JIL-CONNECTIOE quickened «menkm-v 4,. W After all, it will perhaps he found that the grand question, on which I am about to enter, Connection of' Fever with Irylammaiion, ~ Wu-m-«a- Connectibn of Fever with Iry‘iammation. |