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Show 226 Artificial and accidental pilir'gnmsiar. heat IOO-r-pulse 112. 98-pulsc lBfi-nig‘ht I'iiilfi'l‘ uneasy-diarrhea. 19th at three I'. M.-Heat91~é-pulse 120. 8 ditto, ditto haustion, irritation and gangrene, as excess of heat-But while the body is cooled by tepid fomentation, the injured part, if it grow very hot, should have compresses wet with cold water kept applied to it, till the temperature be ~-good deal ol'debility-takes aromatic powder and an opiate. reduced. tor-pulse 112. 3 P. M. heat SP.M. heat {OI-pulse lZd-good night murmur-l looks well. 18th at, two P. "Mp-Heat gig-pulse 126. 8 P. M. heat 20th at three l'. hI-Heat 100---pulse 124-allowed meat and porter-altogether better. 21st at three P. M.-Heat 98-pulse llB-quite free from pain-doing very well. Anne Cotton, aged 9.--Very much burnt over the shoulders and face-sloughs deep-lies quite composed; will probably die. Fourth day after the accident heat gO-next day 96%. The parts kept constantly wet with aq. veget min.--takes syr. papav. all). frequently, \\‘¢JJU W mm Conclusion. Half past nine, P. M. heat 101-pulse lilo-good night-takes mist. salin. i7ti1at eight A. Dds-Heat })7:§~~-pulse 120. ‘ i Formerly, when I was concerned for patients who suffered amputation in summer, I have had a window taken out, the space filled up with wicker-work, and this interlaced with furze. The furze was kept perpetually wet. A grateful coolness is thus produced, when the wind sets into the room. I have since in a few Fifteen years ago, I communicated to a medical friend thermometrical observations on young people of a consumptive habit, some of whom have since died of consumption; as also a few upon individuals, affected with passion. My correspondent thought the results curious, but lost the paper. Some of Mr. Smith's observations direct the thoughts to the efifeet of emotion and of pain on temperature ; and the subject is deserving of attention" THUS have I examined the conncc~ cases directed the heated body of the patient tion'between fever and inflammation; (lspending to be spunged with warm water, which produced a beneficial effect, as in idiopathic fever, and in the natural phlegmasize. It would be waste of words to shew how comfortable this must he in moderate cases, and how likely in dangerous ones to turn the balance in favour of the patient, Nothing can so much forward exhaustion, only on the most fully authenticated facts without any admixture of supposition. My own opinion I have placed beside the opinion ot'others, along with practical inferences relative to such cases, as most severely task medicine. It mains for the well-informed and the impartial to decide whose is the sounder doctrine. Q2 |