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Show Temperature of the body. \ \‘ u. as."Fry-231 the most decided use of cordials and tonies can alone rescue From depending destruction. It is where from internal gangrene or general exhaustion, the temperature and powers sink together. The usual fault in practice here is the too great interval between (loses. We have all the evidence we can have that the grateful and restorative virtue of wine, though perfectly sensi» hle, sometimes hardly lasts beyond a single se- eoudfi': How necessary then to be watchful in repeating and varying the stimulant! Lite rrray thus he often preserved, as appears from the fol- lowing relation ofDr.Clark (fevers p. 45); than which I do not know any one that places the art and the artist in amore amiable and useful light. led into Hie 1m" tyieordz'a/x, ti'iap/romticr and [teary coverings [o flute /)ersfiiruli9n---7/tea.»‘ures that prove very speedily den ttrirt'tiz'e (Journal vii. 2"'2) --At the same time, women in child-hcdhad purple miliary fever; andin those that died, the body was universally covered with gangrenous spots-rt proot iét/L day. Mr. D. now took his medicine with reluctrnte. As his relations refused to continue the bark Ilett themwith directions, to give. him strawberries, and orange s, and to keep the room well aired. On the 10th of July, I was again desired to visit him. It was now the twentythird day of his disease, reckoningtiom the time he was first confined. He was reduced to the greatest pitch of weakness, lay in a stupid, sensel ess state, and had constant tremors of the hands. From the time I last visited him, he had never been out of bed,- neither had he taken any medicines, Being persuaded that there "as still some (lHnC C ot recovery, I insisted upon his being taken up,- and alter having a couch brought into the room, I placed him upon it with my own hands, as I could get no assistance from his re- lations, who imagining his death inevitable, did not chuse to have him disturbed: After this I staid with him some hours, kept the windows open, as the weather was very hot, and gave him two dozes ofthe bark, containing one draehrn each ; and from time to time supported him with a little wine. Be. fore-.1 left him he. became sensible, and his eyes had a more lively appearance. The alteration for the better, indeed , was so visible, that his relations now joyfully promised to comply with every direction. A draehm ot' the bark was ordered to be given every two hours; and ladvised them to take him out of bed every morning, and lay him upon the couch. or in tlammatory disposition accompanying the miliary eruption. iiiolestum, acnto typho gr'arissirné decumbensrespui; contra On the day following, his skin was moist; his urine turbid ; his pulse 108; and he took his medicines freely: next day his pulse was only 90; he had no symptom oft'et'er; but was ea acids rrriumtuie, etiam nrei hand conscious, optavi. so weak, that when he litted his hands, they ehaked. " lpse equidein, says Dr. Eisfcld, camphoram, mihi scmper Quin lihet \‘ini hanstus me milri rcddebatet quanquam hme secunda From this time he gradually recovered,- but it was several weeks rini tzunen ctticaria in ner'vos cqr‘pusque univcrsurn indc 111" before his strength returned, notwithstanding a nourishing diet and exercise on horsthack, as soon as his strength would r‘tulcutlssirué clui‘et (l. C. Ml. permit. rernnr eonrersio ultra SUCOmanr horse parlem vix perdurabat. ith/z day, 'J'ht. «m,. ,mwm paw-ww- _< . "Er-5 A case occurs in the decline of fever where 17:.- cm.wch.fit 1 7-1. VlONl M0 |