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Show Parallel (yf 26 two Authors. 3.---The aflection of the head in fever is inflammatory. 6.--Ia'entity (jplzrenitis andfever. PLoucaUE'r.--The difference therefore between fever and PLOUCQUET.--H0w comes it to pass that authors in general, the inflammatory nature of typhus ?--p. 7. phrenitis is either none or trifling. To phrenitis vehement and impetuous symptoms are usually referred. To typhus, sleepiness, stupor, and the indications of diminished muscular CLUTTERBUCK.--lf we examine the phenomena of fever by the same tests that we judge of the presence of inflammaa tion any where in the system, we shall be struck with the great analogy which subsists between the two affections-- power. But there is nothing constant here. In epidemic typhus the phrenitic symptoms sometimes occur at the very first attack, and sometimes on the approach of death. After a quiet course, the utmost phrenitic fury shall come on with a p. 101. return of muscular power.--p. 17. and among them the most esteemed, are so anxious to deny 4.-The analogy between fever and in am» mation is compleat. PLoucousr.--The resemblance between the appearances in fever-the act of fevering, so to speak-and the appear. ances in inflammation, is the closest possible. Hence noso« logists justly consider fevers and inflammations as allied, and Stoll has presented them promiscuously. CLUTTERBUCK.--In short, in whatever light we view the subject, we cannot but be struck with the great similarity that obtains between inflammation and fever.-p. 130. snow mum ' 5.---=Both have a sort of saving clause-«The affection of the brain, which in fever is primary, 9" not exactly at first inflammation, is something very much akin to it. CLUTrERBucx.--The similarity of the symptoms in the two (phrenitis and fever) is, on many occasions,'so great that it is scarcely possible to discriminate between them; an irresistible argument, in my opinion, is thus afforded of the identity of their nature, and of their being merely different modifications of the same topical affection.--p. J48. '7.--Inthe consideration ofrcmote causes there is much general agreement, (Ploucquet p. 18. Clutterbuck p. '84»). On a moment's reflection, great latitude, in this respect, appears the necessary result of their common principle, whereas Cullen allows but human cffluvia and marsh miasmata. Ploucquct considers the exanthemara as only at times, and Clutterbuck as always being phlegmasize of the brain. PLoucounr.--I hesitate not to assert that, from the very onset ofthe disease, the whole, or some larger or smaller, portion ofthe brain, is in an irritated or feverish state. But it is not altogether evident in what that irritation consists; whether and how far it differs from the inflammatory state.- p. 15. CLUTTERBUCK.--Tl'le disorder of the brain which takes place in fever, is either a state of actual inflammation, or at e a condition nearly allied to it.--p. 100. 8.---Iny'ziries If the head, in proportion as they disorganize the brain, generate properje‘cer. Pr.oucaunT.--Mechanical injuries of the brain not un- frequently generate fever with stupor, delirium, and the other symptoms of typhus. To these, patients, after some time, {all victimsin proportion as the disorganization in the brain advances-up. 20. 6.~--Identiz‘y CLUTraasv-sg. |