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Show Temperature oft/re body. and the worthless. But for every immediately practical and extensive improvement in medicine there should be a proportionate levy on the public. For the common sense ot'mankind animal fernzenlallons, or, in plainer terms, to W'hat family in fact, but will own that to be ought not to be neglected. delivered from the small-pox is a privilege to be valued in specie; and if collectors had gone even in its beginning sometimes fairly presents an opportunity to put it in practice. It is when there is great faintness, soft, weak pulse, tangible coldness (often clammy) extending to the head and neck, breath cold, and absence of all irritation. In this state I have seen as signal relief from aromatics with some drops of laudanum, as from cold in the dry heat. Last spring, a patient had felt so relieved by a round froni house to house as with a brief, I fancy there are few, who would refuse their mite in return for a protection against the dangerous effects of typhus and scarlet fever. The very example of fever furnishes a precedent. For when the first vote passed in favour of Dr. Jenner, the occasion was seized to intro- ll435ow mlri prevent the heat of the body from sin/ring too low or rising too high. In intermitteuts, the advantage of checking the cold stage by cordials is undisputed. In hectic, the principle duce the claims of another physician to a premium of half the amount forhaving by great study devised the means of destroying febrile contagion. Should Parliament think proper to appeal to the profession at large, the extinguisher of contagion, I am confident, willnot Continued fever draught of this kind, that once while his attendants were away, he crawled out of bed and in the most improper state, drank three in succession, by which his fever was heightened and protracted.* A case obtain a majority even among those who fully allow the power of acid fumes. I do not for- get Dr. "Wight, but the sum total being once fixed, it might be left to that deserving veteran ' To prevent misapplication ofhcating medicines, Isubjoin the following observation from the very intelligent Dr. Vandermonde. July, 1757, highest temperature at Paris from 73° to 99, ardent fever became epidemic; heat and thirst into- to take his own proportion. No one can be at lerable, breath burning; extreme dyspnoea, bowels bound, aloss to assign the proper destination of the I‘C~ urine red and thick. Death, preceded by delirium, convulsions, maindcr. In fever, no purpose ought to be held more steadily in \‘lCW than to regulate the calorific animal -W‘;5 J «u‘é‘li'x‘ , .. syncope, took place in two days. Repeated bleedings with cool regimen succeeded. 1/13 the seizure is attended with fainlness and sweating, care must he taken to avoid being misled «nu-3.... ,_.,.... ., N‘V'K' can con ceiveof these as marketablecommodities. 17-J A..." ..__._-.._...A 17% |