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Show Connection of Inflammation with Fever. 54 others, gives an unexpected and fatalturn to the complaint\ instances. III.-CONNECTION 0F INFLAMMATION To select one from amultitude of In an account of the epidemic AS fever, palpably arising from inflammation and terminating with it, has been named sympf maladies of Lisle, for January 1758, it is related, that a young man, ill ofaputrid malignantfever, aprcs aeoir trainé trente-cinq jours, et avoir domzé [es esperances [es mieum jomlécs par dos tomatz'c, so typhus, synochus, low, nervous, spot‘ seller, et des urines critiques, mourn: [e trente WITH FEVER. ted, malignant, yellow, jail, hospital, ship. putrid fever, has been called idiopathic or independent, because supposed not to arise from the disorder of a part. At all times, however, these varieties have been observed to be attended by inflam»» mation, particularly when it is protracted or vioa lent. The affirmation of Riverius (Prax. Med. xvii. 2. 1.) febres acm‘as et malignas rarissimr} sine viscerz's alicajus inflammatione in- cedere has been confirmed in every single epi- demic, where search has been made, and often septiéme, d'une inflammation dons [e bas-mntre qui survint contra tout apparencc, et qui ne dam gue trente-sia' Ireures.---Vandermonde Joarn. o'e Med. viii. 381. May we not regard the small: pox, the cow-pock, and all exanthematous disorders, as fevers with inflammation? The plague has been even regarded as basing for its characte1istic, ce1tain superficial inflam- mations ol critical impo1t.--~Dissection arter fever has, almost alw.,ays bioughtmaiks of in- *lammation to light without search. Whatever may be the explanation, the fact is acknowledged by the followers of every master, by the eclectics, and pure l -.1\‘ empirics. Taking the internal parts, along 'JN' -' with the surface, into account, fever seems hardly ever exempt from inflammation. At some period, how familiar are external abscesses, in those of our own country P External inflammation is regarded as salutary; when internal, it sometimes causes groundless alarm, but at others 1 "HDEPENDF. XL" :1. |