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Show Wetzlar Epidemic. Wetzlar Epidemic. quick, sometimes Spasmodie, ratherconstricted pulse, anxious and quick respiration, extreme thirst, dry mouth, tongue with the roughness of a file and fiery red, strong smelling urine, want nervous system, is thrown into a state of total 1 of appetite, desire of acids, delirium, oppression of the chest combined with pain and irritated to pour oil into the flames, and to destroy the plaint might have been taken for a most violent this mistake, is the circumstance of the tongue catarrhal fever; at times genuine inflammation growing foul and coated about the 6th or 8th oftlie lungs ; added to all this, the most excess: vourable crisis, the most profound stupor fol. day-a fact which many will oppose to me, I am aware, in consequence of the prevailing fashion of deriving fevers from bilious impurities." "But this is only a sign, not the thing itself. For since the brain suffers so much, must not the whole abdomen sympathize P What physician will deny this sympathy? W'ho is unacquainted with the consent between the brain and abdomen? Does not one see the bile break forth after a fall on the head? In such case who would even conjecture that there existed a bilious disease?" lowed; genuine inflammation of the brain; and " Firmly persuaded, therefore, that the phe; on the 7th, 9th, or 10th day, death. " How deceitful," exclaims the author, " the nomena, admitted only of the above interpre sudden failure of every power! that is to say, I had recourse to the strictest; regimen, copious bleedings during the first: days, stimulating pediluvia and elysters; inter. The sea eond and third day, increase of all these symp» toms ; higher fever; such lassitnde that patients could scarcely stand upon their legs. Thenceforward aggravation of the complaint from hour to hour. Deafness, or ringing in the ears; red, protruded, weeping, inflamed eyes; tossing about oftlie body. "Win vehement congestion of blood, or inflamed."- " "To give what are called nervous medicines, as bark, camphor, serpentaria,valerian, musk, is patient." sleeplessness, bruised feel ofthe limbs. ‘IJJUW incapacity for its functions, being oppressed by cough, so that in many cases the whole COlli- sive determination of blood to the head ; entire l l 19 I In patients left to nature alone, and whom she did not rescue by a fa- " What may more easily seduce into | How easy to imagine that we have before us a true putrid fever; but true putrid fever is rarely to be found in nature. And here there is nothing more than the consequence of the brain being strongly af tation, I adopted the antiphlogistie method, nally, whey, nitre, cream of tartar, tamarinds, oxymel, and nothing further; but these were fected; which now, together with the whole THEN/0115 attended with the most solid advantages. If there c ‘3 |