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Show ‘MJUW min f two Authors. :38 Parallel of from poisons. 8. dysaerodz'c, from bad air.- 9. miasmatz'c, as (a) emmhematz'c. Malaria. (c) mephz'tic. (h) helodic, from marshes. From the foregoing train of reasoning, the division of typhus into idiopathic and sympathic (d) anthropophthoric, or generated in the human system. (e.) locmic or the plague. (f) lyssic, from the poison of rabies. 9. septic. 10. cacotrophic, from famine. 11. sympathic. 12. asthem'c ; possibly a torpor may arise, from de- necessarily results; though as the author says, to illustrate the sympathic varieties, we may divide typhus into cephalic or Moira-gastric or sr‘omach,---splanchnic or hozcel, typhus. I do not however see why, upon this principle, he does not add the pulmonic (pneumonia typhodes) this further division appears useful, because, in some cases, the remote cause, by continuance of its operation, may influence the disease; and, in others, that cause seems to give a peculiar cha- racter to the irritation or inflammation, and bility, in the vessels of the brain, whence a sub. .._....az..... c-~.;.w... s ._{.. . and others. His three species he subdivides into subspecies and varieties; premising that 39 inflammatory state may be conceived to follow. But that the thing is not common, appears from the numbers who die extremely debilitated, without typhus ever superveninv. B. GAS" TRIC 1. acathartic, from sordes, worms-2. phlegmonitic from inflammation of stomach. Almost all the subspecies under A. recur here, ought therefore to modify the treatment. Un_der the ENCEPHALIC species, he places, I, the particulatly 3, 4, '7, 8, 10, and in an inverted psychic, that proceeding from mental operations; by nerves renders it probable, that a. similar, and this will be (a) entonic, as from intensity of of study or (/2) pathetic from passion. 2. ugrypnic, from too long watching. 3. 0rgas-tie, arising out of a general inflammatory diatbesis. 4.7rzctastatic. 5. opoplcctic, (persons seized by apoplexy sometimes die of a fever with the character of typhus; no wonder since apOplexy, the preceding disease, violently af~ fects the brain l The affinity of the two disorders appears likewise from personsdying suddenly, or apoplectic, of the contagion of the plagu6) but not so ready sympathy exists between the 6. traumatic, from external violence. sense 11. C. SPLANCHNIC. The connection bowels, as between the stomach, and brain; though the inflammation may possibly arise in the course of the disorder. Dr. Ploucquet thinks it can scarce be allowed, that all putrid fevers derive their origin from an affection of the organ, upon which the sensorial and moving systems depend. If manifest signs of a putrefactive tendency pre- cede the symptoms, denoting injury to the sensorial system, the fever is to be called putrid; 7. toxic, from "ii" ‘r 'l I lam ' M0997 |