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Show 1 75 Temperature of the body. llilll' bur fever-patients would mostly recover, if but The reduction of heat is the point of most, consequence in continued fever. The full accomplishment of this purpose nearly involves the prevention of local inflammations. Mr. Hunter has shewn how much the system is weakened, under certain circmnstances, by the production of heat. We all feel weak from houses, barns, and cottages, that could be provided for them being overheated. One cause of death in fever about Newport, were capable of containing, a tempo rary shed may be the exhausting production of heat; and was erected with deal boards on the Forest and thatch ed over here no disorganization, adequate to the fatal with straw, capacious enough to hold 120 patien ts. event, will be sensible. Bleeding is known by experiment to lower the temperature many de~ grees. The same el't‘ect follows vomits, cathartics (especially such as have been used in Ame- snow1.1"" 177 sufficiently aired. Such an observation from Dr. Brocklesly (med. obs. p. 66) is well worth quoting. " In October, 175 8, a greater number of sick soldie rs being landed out of the transports on the Isle of Wight, than the But being executedin a very slovenly manner by the undertaker, who was a country workman, it appeared inadequate to answe r the end proposed; for the sick, lodged in it, were expos ed to so much extraordinary cold, as well as moisture : yet, notwith- standing all the damage and inconvenience they suffer ed from rica or those still more violent, which in the these accidents, remarkably fewer died of the same diseases, hands ofa practitioner in the British navy went under the name of t/zmzderbolis) and by sudoritics. It may be a question it‘ any medicines directly affect the calorific process, whether this arise from an affection of the perspiratory vessels, as was first, I think, distinctly taught in tlrenrodern schoolof llalle, or irommore rapid though treated with the same medicines, than died any where combinations through the system. The con- tinued application olT cool or cold air seems to keep the heat down so effectually that it would seem from some obscr 'ations, where the experiment was conducted on a much grander scale than any mortal perhaus would have had the 3':rrius to couceireor the power to execute, that tlrre cold state may be almost neglected and that our else. And all the convalescents recovered much sooner than they did in any of the warmer and closer houses and barns, where fires, and apparently better accommodat ions of every sort, could be provided for them. This fact, so remarkable to all the people the least conversant about the sick, did not escape the notice of Mr. Adair, inspector of the regimental infirmaries, who remarking, that this curre ncy of air had such amazing salutary etiects upon the men hutted 011 the Forest, procured an order to conrert Carisbrook Castle itself v. hich is situated upon the extremi tv ot a very high ridge of ,Iend, into an hospi t1511 11acre near 400 sick n1:ght be lodged together, ar1d1<gulated by the hospital guard according to the directions at the phy sican. At first it was expected the sick brought there would have done better than their cornrades-; wet the event \erified our conjectures onl3'1n p111)! for though the castle "as more '09)crors tr. th P‘ l 1etov1r1. , than the1 small vraNi MO |