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Show Dependence of Freer. ‘11 with cases of the variety of typhus, called by rim-DEPENDENCE or raven (IDIOFATHIC raven, As. IT IS CALLED) on INFLAMMATIOX or ONE PARTICULAR oaeam Greek observer certainly drops no hint, by Ex Ala; «an --- IEN Hippocrates, the name of phrenzy ("mm") is perpetually given to fever, attended by deh- which any one could be led to deny the existence of fever, as an idiopathic disease, or in other words, to expunge from the nosology of rium, especially to the kind more recently styled malignant. Let the student only refer: Cullen, the first order ofhis class Pyrem‘ae, and to the cases related, in the third book, on Ep1« demics, From resembling circumstances, in the accounts of typhus (Wig‘TWivloqvmflw. Ed. Foesii, Gen-er. p. 5.53) and of inflammation of the i .v, Mum some‘fl'bris syncopalis,fainting/ever, because at a very early stage,if the patient in his agitation place himself upright, complete syncope or great faintness shall come on. Jam :2 sold cor-r pores erectz'one sine pracgressis amount/20222113243 deliquia (J. P. Frank Epitome, I. 101) The to throw the genera (as consisting simply in original or secondary inflammation ofthe brain, or its appendages) all under the order Pfileg» nasite. This important transfer was reserved for an age, possessing deeper insight into orw brain. ("59* mm. ibid. p. 487), the antients- them- ganic affections, than could belong to the selves are thought not to have overlooked‘ the identity of these two affections. But the antients. sketches, I confess, are to me too slight, and the strokes too much at random, to argue the existence of ideas, approaching to those, on which our classifications are founded. In the first passage we are told, " when the patient rises, It is indicated by the disturbance of the sen« sorial functions; and, beyond doubt, it was early contemplated, but on enquiry rejected. Thus in the sixteenth century, Coiter or Koy~ terns, the able anatomist of Groningen, in speaking of brain fever, declares, HEM/(Z7?! me "‘ he immediately sinks again ;" in the second, "‘ if he be raised, he cannot maintain the erect "‘ posture," Hence the author (who, accord- ing to, the joint opinion of modern critics, is later than Hippocrates) had, it should seem, melt The idea does not, however, appearto liedeep. in membranis, me in c‘ereéri subsz‘enz‘izi a'epre/zen- dere quiei iiy'iammatz'oncm. Thomas Vl'illis, almost a century later, thinks it more pro- bable, that the disease shéuld depend on inflam- Wit 2 mation l |