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Show 172 um] practice in fewer, Fluctuations of opinions " and he was untied. He was bled four times " norc-l5 times in all."--" A stout artisan " " " " ‘ bad a paroxysm so furious as to require seve- "‘ ---that bleeding must not be discontinued as ral people to hold him-his countenance was the neck and-the hands swelled under the " long as the symptoms, which first denoted its " necessity continue, as in inflammation of the " bowels no one leaves off purging medicines till He was bled thrice in " they have operated."--lt is almost impossible an hour and ahalf-the last time in both feet ‘ at once, the blood rushing out with impetuo~ This scarcely repressed his violence" " sity. ‘ The bleeding was repeated four times more that you should contemplate such positions, de- " bleed him a ‘3rd.time in the same way, all in "less than two hours. His symptoms abated inflamed; the eyes starting out of the head- eye of the spectator. " within 24 hours from his first attack; the ope- " ration was repeated three times within six days, " when he was out of danger." If the mention of syncope do not giveasutiiciently precise idea li435ow (tuba, 175 of the bleedings here in *ntioned, it may be observed that in one instance le. is stated as the quantity drawn. The reader may suspect this Dr. Audouin of being, in common with his countrymen, an indiscriminate shedder of blood. mortality of pestilential feversgin all ages and in all countries---that it is much better not to bleed at all than to draw blood disportioned in quantity to the Violence of the fever livered as they are in still stronger terms (Rats/z iv. 335), without trembling for your discrimi- nation; lest you should employ the measure recommended where it is unsuitable, or omit it where it is required. It has been supposed that in consequence of some unknown revolution in the human system, the genius of epidemic fevers has of late years become inflammatory again in place of nervous or putrid. But an unbroken series of observa- tions, ifthe nature of the thing do not Speak plainly enough, proves that these disorders, lie hon ever gives an account of other epidemic however they may differ, like all other cpi» fr vers. in which he found from one to four (lemics, in frequency at different periods, pre- hieedings sul'lie‘ient. Such statements, together with the reports of the oldest. among the observers of the yellow lever, extort a fearful assent to the doctrine of Sydcnham and Rush, that the " half-way prac" tlL‘C of moderate bleeding has kept up the serve one uniform character, or, if they vary, do not fluctuate in the supposed manner. And if we were destitute of positive testimony, it would be more simple to suppose that medical. and civil history present only the same phoeno- menon: the idea attached to reigning diseases and " mortality |