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Show HO Time of ityiammation ing, in some inflammatory complaints of the sal restlessness and violent fever, these symp- chest, bowels and throat. toms were almost entirely removed by evacuations; when on the 10th day the head is From the comparison of symptoms and dissections, I now think myself entitled to draw a more precise conclusion, respecting the con.- nection ofinflammation with fever. In whatever organ this process may be detected, its symptoms appear at all stages of the disease all/re; nor . does the head ofl‘er the smallest peculiarity in this :tEY‘E‘I ,m ., u r hiniselfout of bed-bleeding was not risqued E l 11 of side and bloody expectoration with univer« seized; his pulse grows hard ; he tries to throw l further illustrated. on account of the exhausted state, to which he had been reduced; bark with an opiate pre- scribed-another was bled under exactly the same circumstances and died. In both after respect. mosphere is at 95° or upwards, a part, not b6" It is very true, as our authors agree in affirming, that fever, consequent upon injuries of the head, is not to be separated by any line of distinction from typhus or idiopathic fever. But does the opinion then, which they have conceived, hinder them from perceiving that this may likewise be asserted of injuries of other parts and of poisons ?---Fevers of various type may be producediby poisons, perhaps by hurts. I saw a girl, previously healthy, who took for some purpose not avowed as much dry powder of laurel leaf as would stand upon a Sixpence. Instant vomiting succeed, chill and heat. I ordered an emetico-cathartic. After some hours, she felt well; and walked a quarter of a mile to my house next morning. I advised hark. She, trusting toher feelings, neglected fore peculiarly diseased, might become ganv the advice. grcnous in a very few hours. IVe do not in~ dead at home want examples, nearly appl‘O‘lCh‘ lug. when she suffered from the poison the day be- death, the blood was found dissolved; the‘ brain and its membranes much gorged with blood-state of other parts not mentioned. The system in fever is in that condition when its actions, according to Mr. Hunter's phraseology, are greater than its powers. It is easily excited and its processes hurry to a termination, as is equally evident in both kinds of crisis. In the fevers of hotter climates there is greater danger still of confounding original and secondary inflammation. Here we must resort to a medical rule of three, saying as the average term in. which/ever provesfatal in the one country is to the same term in the other, so is the course of'concon-z‘ltmt inflammation respectively. From which rule it would result that, when the atw In the evening,. about the time fore, she. was seized with so violent a cold fit as to |