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Show t {(1 Time of iiflummation Analogz'cal Considerations. to be supposed dying ;---continued fever like: wise follows ingesta.-But it may be more to the present purpose to say that surgical acci» dents of other parts as well as of the head are, accompanied by symptoms so like those of con~ tinned malignant fever, that there are in~ stances, in which it appears to have been attempted to shift oil" the disgrace of an unsuen cesst'ul operation upon such a fever, supervening by accident. O 1la from colder regions, being absolutely confined to the wounded men (Relation histor: et ckirur: Paris, 1803.)--The general fact may be seen wherever there are persons lingering under mortal injuries wheresoever received. 'l‘hus, colonel Vignolcs, a distin» guished otlieer, being wounded during the German wars of the middle of last century in the knee, the celebrated surgeon Louis ampu» fated the limb. The patient died with fever in twenty days. The delirium and other symp toms so much resembled those of idiopathic Analogical Considerations. By an acute writer on the mind it is laid down, that we never ought to rely upon the strictest-seeming inference, unless it have its independent evidence in observation, The me- fever, that this was said to have been the real dical philosopher cannot pretend to discover cause of his death. in experience greater encouragement to trust Dr. Beaussier, who records the case, uses a form of expression, which plainly bespeaks the degree of confidence, to which he thought the assigned cause entitled. On attrihua ce desordre a 11116 fierre maligne, dont on assura que 1' on decouvrit les symptmnes. (Roam, xxx. 167.)--What is more cuv in his logic than the metaphysical. He may therefore deem it prudent to attend to the above rule; nor should he fail to hold in suspicion every doctrine which requires the support of auxiliary hypotheses; which obliges to shift iions still, Mr. Larrey, surgeon in chief to tlté' or explain away the meaning of terms ; or stands opposed to clear analogy. Both our authors on French army in Egypt, relates that, after the fever, I think, attenuate into nothing the im- battle oflleliopolis and the last siege of Cairo, port of the word inflammation, or require us to the wounded soldiers were attacked mth tlIC Es'VH‘Jirc j/ermfeeer. It was not epidemic not allow to an inadmissible extent the evanescence of all the traces of this process, altogether arbi- simply the eli‘ect of climate on, persons arriving tarily presupposing (Clutterbaclr, p. 1 17) that they from r shal |