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Show 14S .Eudence from the sensorial fimctimzs, head appeared in exact proportion to the very unequal pulsation of the carotid and temporal arteries, compared with that of the radial."- August 10th, this correspondent further tells me: " I have made repeated trials to ascertain if any thing peculiar takes place in the temper« ature of maniacs, and after very accurate ohm servation, the result is, that the degree of heat is exactly similar to that of subjects in the highest health and sanity, when placed in the same circumstances and situations: in all, the Ll range ofthe thermometer varies in different parts of the body, but is uniformly the same in others, "lr: such as the axilla, under the tongue, &c. l; A' ‘ g, ‘fhf 7/ "1&4!de3H 4. r. / MA - u "4.13th m ," In no trial have I noticed any unnatural tempera~ ture in melancholics, whose stomachs might be suspected loaded with viscid phlegm, though the bulb of the instrument was applied about the liypocliondrium and scrobiculus cordis; and. here I would observe that the stomach of mac niacs of all descriptions and characters abounds with thick slime and indigested matter, which, very unaccountably, has much to do with the state of the intellect, and has 'a strange pro~ pensity to form afresh; hence the indispensihle necessity for evacuating remedies and their frequent repetition in - almost every species of mental indisposition, though no other symptom indicate their employment."---Dr. 149 section and other arguments that the seat of these disorders is abdominal. Thus from thermometrical observations, made during the height of divers nervous disorders, it appears that the sensorial functions may be variously disturbed, even without increase of the animal heat, much more without compleat inflammation. On the other hand, during the hot stage of idiopathic fever it is remarkable that in parts, free from all suspicion of inflammau tion, the temperature will rise as high as it does in the‘very seat of local inflammation itself. Thus Dr. Brandis observes (Versuc/t uber (1.. Lebens/rraft p. 126) that the heat will often be found increased more than 6 degrees beyond the natural in parts where there is pain and swelling with increased warmth. Mr. Hunter {012 inflammation 1). 294) found on repeated man subject, excited by an extraneous body thrust into a wound, rose only about six degrees and three-quarters. In animals the heat in» creased little or none. A heat of 6 or 7 degrees above the natural standard is common in idiopathic fever, when the parts, to which the thermometer is applied, are affected merely by the general disease without any tendency to in» flammation. frost has lately endeavoured to shew from dis-v section .UNl M0987" trials that the temperature of a part of the hu- Changes l |