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Show {he sensurial Functions. lizidencc from 140 demic it may be called, of a character 3011in vas occasionally impossible to detect any pain what remarkable from Devonshire to Dumfrie- or heaviness in the head, even where a delirium of two or three days' continuance occurred in its course. This ishowever unusual. Nothing It attacked, in many instances, the shire. junior part of Opulent families. It frequently did not appear to arise from contagion; often attacking one in a family, and only one or two in a schoor; the majority of patients being under 25 years of age. The exciting causes, as moderate chagrin, were often such that, in other seasons, you might swear they could pro" duce no such effect, though the peculiarities of I i-H the present were utterly unknown. The nature of the disorder could not be mistaken. Of near twenty practitioners, whose opinion I had opportunity to know, not one hesitated upon this point. It did not often spread by contagion even when the most imprudent hazards of can» tracting it were runfi'F Now in this typhus, it more properly belongs to fever than painful affection of the head. I only conceive that we have not grounds for ranking this affection, such as it exists, among the signs of inflammam tion. The proof is incumbent on the assertors. OF the delirium of fever I entertain the same belief with somewhat more confidence. Our physiology is as yet a vast deal too gross to enable us to deduce the changes, upon which delirium depends. That a disturbance in the order and force of ideas must depend upon a disorder in the organs. to which the production, and association of ideas belong, is evident. enough. But this by no means fixes the species of disorder. Let us take one example. In "'35 3‘ Mulier quasdam juvenis, menses jam fereiii in utero gerens, ex animi angore in iyphnm incidit. Aderant rigores subsc~ rgueiite calore, virium prostrntio summzl, capitis ct arlunm gastritis there is vomiting (and pain of the stomach). In phrenitis there is delirium (and pain oi'the head). But is delirium (with pain) an}; De li-igidr‘i gravidae afl‘undenda nc more a general proof of" inflammation in the. Attzinien, urgente corporis aestn, tepida head, than vomiting (with pain) is of intlamma~ z‘filigentsr fora tanlum lcvaminis scnsit. ut intra dies pziucos periculi cxpers es~c videretnr' Mane dici ix, inopinaté pulsns ceieriur, caput gi'avins aliaqne incommoda, recidivam mini- tion in the stomach? The mode of action, in which delirium con (Trumps, lingua fusca. eogilari quidem. tmtia. Mihi ai‘i‘ius inquirenti quid tandem essctquod notes" ruins molirelur, sists, lies hid in the unfathomed abyss ot‘ the. nervous influence. To seel; information ae- mm; est maritns se noete peracui cum nmrc rein huhnisse, nihil inde mali passus. fligta quoqufi k specting the nature otl"ei'ei' in that mode a," action will he as much lost labour probably :1». im'ri tenaniluit.-Neniini prmms mortalinin uuctor sum, it ~~' .' l, Kliq. v,',,.-i' >1 ‘p‘. » "Lin .. Lie not/"nus Venerl inaolitiis luzit. 4 Ir"; {Tr/.733Dtr |