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Show Parade! of two A Ill/£0719. deranged state of the brain. 11. Tire debility of typhus is to be considered fever, must, in every instance, have proved t'ataL-p. 436. as apparent and not real. It is suddenly re- wmtrmble by means commonly regarded (IS debiMating. lQ.--lee cure is to be directed to the restorar tion cf the brain to its [wall/1y state. PLoUCQUET.-Ot' the subsisting strength of the patient, we are by no means to judge solely from the symptoms in» dicating debility. Since in typhus we do not always find a real exhaustion or defect, but rather a suppression, of power ; or to express the fact more properly, an impediment to the functions of the brain. PLOUCQUET.---Typhus must have for its indication to re lieve the brain.--p. 7. CLUTTERBUCK.-\Nhatever is capable of relieving or diminishing the quantum of topical disease (in the brain) is the proper remedy.-p. 275. Hence it so frequently happens, that the extreme apparent debility is taken of? by some counterirritation.--Diss. 2. p. 18. As dt'bility or failure of the powers is the most striking symptom in typhus, insomuch that some place in this the essence oftlic disease, it is by no means to be overlooked in the treatment. But we are not undistinguishingly to give stimulants and Ionics as soon as the name typhus is pro- 13.-/erans (f cure. PLOUCQUBT.--Tlle object of relieving the brain not being directly and immediately attainable in any stage of the complaint, we can only take indirect measures. In the first place, depletion and comzter'irritation will contribute to our purpose; and secondly, the restoration of just action in nounced; which is manifest from the phrensy of strength the overpowered vessels and the parts connected with these,- observable in some on the onset, and in others during the last days of life after a long continuance of asthenia. This demonstrates the essential difi'erence between suppression and destruction of power.-p. 29.-Diseases from dcbility should be carefully distinguished from those with tl‘lblllly.‘ p. 8.---Cold affusion, nay, friction with ice.-p. 21. p. 15. CLUtTEnaccrt.-~The debility which accompanies the at- ‘hJJL/H Were it otherwise, blood-letting, which has so often put an immediate stop to the course of Him/t CLUTTERBUCK.--Admit;ing the doctrine that fever is inn flammation, the seat of which is in the brain, the principal remedies that suggest themselres from the analogy of other inflammations are the following: evacuations of various kinds, as blood-letting, purging, sweating, &c.; the application of cold, and irritation of neighbouring or distant parts, as by blisters, sinapisms, Sac-p. 282. tack of fever, is altogether (litierent from ordinary weakness. Blood-letting is not a direct and absolute remedy for in- 1n ordinary weakness, the person is unable to make the usual exertions of health, in the weakness, produced by (ever, he is both unable and unwilling to do it. The former is permanent, the latter is temporary only, and ceases immediately with its cause. This state has been aptly termed depression of strength rather than weakness, and may be compared with a spring that is 0Vt‘.l‘t‘()inf3 by a superior force, but which still retains its power of acting, ready to exert itself as soon as the compressing force is withdrawn.-p. 55.-Debility is not a primary symptom in fever, but a consequence merely of the deranged till m flammation, but is only useful under certain circumstances.- p, 942.--It is on the principle of counter-irritation alone, £apprehend, that their action {that of epispastics) can, in any case, be explainediwp. 3'2}, Ills-"OCCdSZ-Ollal. i 'iios‘sié- ' ‘ |