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14. Febris venerea. From the abforption of the matter from 

 venereal ulcers and fuppurating bones. See Syphilis, II. 1. 5. 2. 



M. M. Any mercurial calx. Sarfaparilla ? Mezereon ? 



15. Febris a fame putrida. Fever from putrid fanies. When 

 parts of the body are deftroyed by external violence, as a bruife, 

 or by mortification, a putrefaction foon fucceeds ; as they are 

 kept in that degree of warmth and moiiture, by their adhefion 

 to the living parts of the body, which molt forwards that proc- 

 efs. Thus the iloughs of mortified parts of the tonfils give fe- 

 tor to the breath in fome fevers ; the matter from putrefying 

 teeth, or other fuppurating bones, is particularly offenfive > and 

 even the fcurf, which adheres to the tongue, frequently acquires 

 a bitter tafte from its incipient putridity. This material differs 

 from thofe before mentioned, as its deleterious property depends- 

 on a chemical rather than an animal procefs. 



16. Febris puerper a. Puerperal fever. It appears from fome 

 late diffections, which have been publiihed, of thofe women who 

 have died of the puerperal fever, that matter has been formed in 

 the omentum, and found in the cavity of the abdomen, with 

 fome blood or fanies. Thefe parts are fuppofed to have been 

 injured by the exertions accompanying labour ; and as matter in 

 this vifcus may have been produced without much pain, this 

 difeafe is not attended with arterial flrength and hard full pulfe, 

 like the inflammation of the uterus ; and as the fever is of the 

 inirritative or typhus kind, there is reafon to believe, that the 

 previous exhauftion of the patient during labour may contribute 

 to its production ; as well as the abforption of a material not 

 purulent but putrid ; which is formed by the delay of extrava- 

 fated or dead matter produced by the bruifes of the omentum, 

 or other vifcera, in the efforts of parturition, rather than by pur- 

 ulent matter, the confequence of fuppuration. The pulfe is 

 generally about 120 when in bed, and in the morning j and is 

 increafed to 134, or more, when the patient fits up, or in the 

 evening paroxyfm. The pulfe of all very weak patients increas- 

 es in frequency when they fit up ; becaufe the expenditure of 

 fenforial power neceffary to preferve an erect pofture deducts io 

 much from their general ftvength ; and hence the pulfe becomes 

 weaker and in confequence quicker. See Seel:. XII. 1. 4. 



Whence I fufpect that the puerperal fever is diftinguifhed 

 from the hectic fever, by the former being produced and fiip- 

 ported by the abforption of a putrid fanies, arifing from dea i 

 parts of the omentum or mefentery ; and the latter being pro- 

 duced and fupported by the abforption of purulent matter, 

 which is the confequence of inflammation, after it has beesi ox- 

 ygenated by expofurs to the air; and that hence they differ 



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