lU DISEASES Class II. i. 3. r. 



palfer, with lefs heat, owing to the lefs violent action of the ca- 

 pillaries -, in this it is higher coloured, and hotter, from the great- 

 er energy of the capillary action in the production of new vef- 

 fels. In the more advanced ftate petechia, and the production 

 ©f contagious matter from inflamed membranes, as the aphthse 

 of the mouth, or ulcers of the throat, diftinguim this fever from 

 the former. Delirium, and dilated pupils of the eyes, are more 

 frequent in nervous fevers •, and ftupor with deafnefs a more 

 frequent attendant on malignant fevers. See Ciafs I. 2. 5. 6, 



There is another criterion difcernible by the touch of an ex- 

 perienced finger ; and that is, the coat of the artery in inflamma- 

 tory fevers, both thofe attended with ftrength of puifation, and 

 thefe with weak puifation, feels harder, or more like a cord ; 

 for the coats of the arteries in thefe fevers are themfelves infla- 

 med and are confequently turgid with blood, and thence are lefs 

 eafily comprefTed, though their pulfations are neverthelefs weak : 

 when the artery is large or full with an inflamed coat, it is called 

 hard •, and when fmall or empty with an inflamed coat, it is 

 called (harp, by many writers. 



M. M. The indications of cure confifl, 1. In procuring a 

 regurgitation of any offensive material, which may be lodged in 

 the long mouths of the lacteals or lymphatics, or in their tumid 

 glands. 2. To excite the fyfcem into necefiary action by the 

 repeated exhibition of nutrientia, forbentia, and incitantia ; and y 

 to preferve the due evacuation of the bowels. 3. To prevent 

 any unneceflary expenditure of fenforial power. 4. To prevent 

 the formation of ulcers, or to promote the abforption in them, 

 for the purpofe of healing them. 



1. One ounce of wine of ipecacuanha, or about ten grains of 

 the powder, mould be given as an emetic. After a few hours 

 three or four grains of calomel mould be given in a little mu- 

 cilage, or conferve. Where fomething fwallovved into the ftom- 

 ach is the caufe of the fever, it is liable to be arretted by the lym- 

 phatic glands, as the matter of the fmall-pox inoculated in the arm 

 is liable to be flopped by the axillary lymphatic gland -, in this 

 fituation it may continue a day or two, or longer, and may be 

 regurgitated during the operation of an emetic or cathartic into 

 the llomach or bowel, as evidently happens on the exhibition of 

 calomel, as explained in Seel:. XXIX. 7. 2. For this reafon 

 an emetic and cathartic, with venefection, if indicated by the 

 hardnefs and fulnefs of the pulfe, will very frequently remove 

 fevers, if exhibited on the firft, fecond, or even third day. 



2. Wine and opium, in fmall dofes repeated frequently, but 

 io that not the lead degree 01 intoxication follows, for in that 

 cafe a greater degree of debility is produced from the expendi- 

 ture 



