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Show Consideration cf the preceding arguments. putrid: and such tendency, he briefly says, of Ploucquet; and the book of Dr. Cluttero is to bejudged of as well from phzenomena, observable in the patient, as from speedy putrefaction after death. This opinion, which will probably be thought to spoil the compactness of the doctrine, together with what was men- buck I took up with a heart, by no means har- dened against evidence. If fever can he re« duced to topical inflammation (though in that tioned before concerning the exanthemata, con- stitutes the only material difference between our two authors, unless another should arise con- ‘ cerning ague. I shall only add that the foreigner takes barely sixty-five pages to deliver a doc- trine, with which our countryman fills full four hundred and fifty. --------= Consideration of the preceding arguments. 4350W 'lNDlA . Ll l" «3‘! it is. 41 In classing for my own use the facts which I had successively acquired concerning fever, I considered whether the ideas of De Grandvil= liers and Wendelstadt could be generalized. For this purpose, I took the pains to reduce our most important observations upon epidemic and single cases of fever, as far as we have them connected with dissections, to the form of tables, in which the symptoms, treatment, and appearances after death were placed in face of each other. Thus prepared, I could not fail to ..e exceedingly struck With the master ly sketch of ~- <2... .w-ucrw- fiw,xw--« Consideration cf the preceding arguments. caseIsoon found thatin the different varieties, the focus of disease must he placed in different organs) it is clear that this reduction alone will exceed all other efforts, put together, in rendering practice simple and certain-the most valuable part of medical knowledge, that which regards inflammation, becoming precisely ap« plicable to fever. On the same account, every illustration of the subsisting connection between fever and inflammation will be followed by correspondent improvement; reason suffio cient for Viewing the question in all its lights. Now, by what test shall we try the opinion thatfetoer depends upon some iQ/‘Zammaz‘ion mil/2m the cranium? In a finished body ofdoctrine, the classes of phzenomena with all their irregulari- - w-' ~44. 4-0 ties should fit into one another, like the mem- bers of a dissected map: each circumstance appearing at due distance and in due propor- tion. In examining such a performance, we must consider whether the objects are placed in the proper district, and whether the pieces meet without gap or exclusion. On finrgling the contrary, it would be the most desirable thing to survey the whole anew, and re'adjust the parts accurately. It might be of some inferior use to shew that the work requires to be taken in hand again. rr‘mv .r.‘ 'v firs-(V‘- . l '42". ‘ via» |