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Show 1 8 ,F/m'iuulz‘ou of" opinion and practice infever. tlammation, so in fever, I apprehend that bleed» ing isoften useful by lowering the power of sensation-l shall add this apparent parodox, that it will be often useful in the same patient at the same time by raising and depressing the sensibility of different organs, nay even of different parts ofthe same organ. I lately, with Dr. Stock of Bristol, attended a gentleman who slowly sunk under lethargy or chronic apoplcxy, his functions of all kinds declining without pain or struggle. Only in the beginning of his general torpor, the eye had an ex- 179 the foot an island of skin, having at least common sensibility-I mentioned the observation to Mr. Davy at the time; but am not sure whether he verified it.-The twitching of particular fibres in a muscle is a similar affection. In fever I imagine that these extremes familiarly co-exist in the sensitive and moving systems; that some mode of bleeding will occasionally remove both; and hence serve as an useful preliminary to the cold application.- The reader, who thinks it worth his while to refer, will easily discover how far these ideas cessive sensibility to light; which was per- agree with those of Dr.‘ Currie and Dr. Jack- manently removed by leeches. mena had been familiar to me. son respectively. Above every indication in clearness and in importance, we may reckon bleeding under violent organic inflammation, which perhaps occurs more uniformly, more early and violently, as the fever is more rapid, excepting perhaps in almost sudden (apoplectic) deaths from the common Claylield, Such phaenoThe late Mrs. when affected by hemiplegia, was observed by myself and another physician to have the knee of the palsied side raised in ll€(l. When moderate pressure was made upon it, she discovered much pain. The circumstance exciting notice, I ventured at themoment to say, that on examination there would be found something like cords on the stretch, exciting cause. Here too, if it do not supersede the affusion, it becomes nevcssary by way under the knee; believing that some of the ofpreparation. ln apoplexy itselfit may sometimes deserve to be considered whether a prac- muscles were spasmodieally contracted, while the rest suffered from paralytic resolution.- Dr. Currie indeed (1. 997, 1805) observes "that And so the fact proved. In a gentleman, who had loss of feeling and motion in one lower extremity, by pricking the limb from the great frocbantt-r downwards I found on the top Of the tice in this order would not be set iccable.- the application of cold under any form, where fever is combined with local inllamimttion, is a subject of much difficulty :" and'be suggests with some dillidcnce a mode ditl't-rcnt from Cold N 2 effusion, |