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Show 3'2 Parallel of two Authors. It-mOccasiond bad efectsfrom the antiphlogtstzc excessive excitement necessarily reach, before it fall below, the mean state? And why does it not plan, form no objection to the doctrine. 33 rest here? Why is not health restored at that PLOUCQUET.--Thougl1 the antiphlogistic plan, vigorously moment F And why does it not continue, when pursued", has often turned out ill, the reciprocal inference, that inflammation does not therefore exist, cannot be justly once restored P-Typhus does not usually go drawn. In other inflammations coming on with debility- in. such as have been styled passive, that method will not succeed, nay, will injure-yet such inflammation does not, on long without putrid symptoms, though there are species of typhus, in which such therefore, cease to he inflammation.---p. 7. CLUTTERBUCK states, that in both inflammation and fever, there are mimerous exceptions to the use of blood-letting. In change takes place only at a late period. The ten- dency to it is known from various circum» stances, observable in the patient, as also from some varieties of inflammation, and in certain states of the Speedy putrefaction after death. ' system, blood-letting cannot be employed with advantage. In many varieties of fever, this treatment appears to be in- admissible-p. 129.-See p. 238-9, for what he says of passive inflammation. UJUH‘ ‘ "Wm Both, by references, establish, as far as authority can establish, the advantage of blood letting in certain circumstances of fever. The question is what these circumstances are, how to reconcile opposite testimonies, and above all, to point out marks, by which the practitioner may be safely guided. The following considerations are oii‘ered by Dr. Ploucquot. To most, the reader will find something similar in Dr. Clutterhuck. Others may rem commend themselves by their good sense. Did the whole difference consist in degree of intensity or relative strength, it would be impossible for an inflammatory disease ever to induce prostration of the powers, or terminate , in mortitication and death; For, must not the excessive We cannot, with confidence, set about to fulfil either of our indications, least of all venture upon evacuations, except at the beginning of the disease; The distinction between cases, in which veneesection is serviceable and the contrary, must sometimes be taken from the in~ ternal state of the patient, (and this is commonly, but not always, determined by the stage of the complaint;) sometimes from a difference in the species of typhus. As long as we have a. right to presume that the tone of the vessels is not debilitated, a proportional contraction will succeed loss of blood, and prepare the way for the restoration of the brain's functions. Besides these general presumptions, the individual case is to he studied, and the signs attended to which concur to render blood-letting adviseable or otherwise. [The author enumerates these] Whence is it, he asks, that bleeding has so often 1) |