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Show ‘34 two Authors. Parallel of" 25 1. However great the variety of appearances in mediately in dependence upon the brain, namely, the external fetter, t/zc‘fundamental qflkction is uniform. senses, the voluntary and the intellectual powers, that the proper diagnostic symptoms of fever arc to he found."--p. 53o PLOUCQUET.-Typllus appears under the most variable ~--lie:iviness of head is duly noticed elsewhere »--p, 42. aspects from difference in symptoms, type, course, the para ticular epidemic, state of patients, complication with other levers and disorders. Hence, diversity in description. and of course in denomination, such as a! first view might seem to imply some essential dlflt'i‘flit'P. This, however, cannot have place, for mere diversity in the face of a disorder cannot change its nature. Dr. Frank, the elder, has properly re« ferred the fevers, named by others ship, jail, hospital, camp fever, the plague. itself, the pestilential ephemera, the sweating sickness, to his nervous fever.--p. 3. Diss. 1. CLUTTERBUCK.-With regard to fever, however numerous and diversified its symptoms are at times observed to be, it will be found, on attentive examination, that few of these are There '(will arise from Circzmzslances k1 variation in the kind and seat q/iirgflammalion cons-to mung jcve)‘. PLOUCQUET.-Tlie inflammatory states, thus formed, he» sides varying in intensity, in extent, and in the alterations they produce in the course of the disease, may be, from the very first, of two kinds, namely, sanguineous or lymphatic." p. 15. CLUTTERBUCK.-If it'be admitted that the brain, like other organs, is susceptible of different degrees of inflammation, that the inflammation may be more or less diffused or Circum- essential, or belong to it exclusively, but are, the greater part ofthem, secondary symptoms only, and common to various scribed ; in other words, that it may partake of the nature of crysipelas or of phlegmon, SIC. --p. 234., other diseases, or casual and of uncertain occurrence; de- pending not immediately upon the original and exciting cause, but arising out of some previous symptom; and many of them altogether the effect of adventitious circumstances, No other cause could produce such etz‘tenswe disturbance in the system. as climate, season, regimen, and the particular state and habir of the patient himself-p. 34. PLoncoU ET.---Tli€ alfection of this most important organ, however varying in degree and extent, cannot but disturb and impair the whole powers of the system.----p. .17. ‘IJJUW iNUi‘A Q.~-T/ie sem' (ffevcr is on the head, or rather in the brain. body, other than the brain, could influence so materially the PLOUCQUET.--Tlle symptoms in each of the stages of principles of action in the system, or exCite so general a (lis- typhus nearly all agree in pointing out the head, or rather the furbsncc ofits functions.--p. 200.-Wc can readily under» brain, as the seat of the disease, whence the propriety of the vulgar German denomination kopf-fiebcr, hitzig e kopf-krankn stand, upon this principle, why the action of remote parts, and indeed of every part of the system, should languish or be litiil. Among these symptoms, I reckon the heaviness and ill-performed, when the great centre of senszitt-on'and nit-ove- pain of the head, deafness, discharge from the ears, various disturbances of tie mind, sleeplessness, letharo‘y, ‘ ‘ stupor, 0 ment is itself rendered incapable of duly continuing its tunic- change in the powers ot the eye, and the other organs oi sense.-p. 6. 7. LLUTTERBUCK details these, With other indicat ions, from p. 33 to S3. " It is in the animal functions, which are im~ mediatclj; CLUT'I‘ERBUCF. -No atfcction of any organ or part of the ?ioiis.-~p. 29‘- .. . "xv-'- ,vm "mossy |