49 o THEORY OF FEVER. SttP. t 13. 



action, and the quantity of heat, which they pofTefs, is alfo con* 

 fined, or infulated, and further increafes by its ftimulus the ac- 

 tivity of the cutaneous veffels of the feet -, and by that circum- 

 flance abates the too great action of the capillaries of the face, 

 and the confequent heat of it. 



XIII. Cafe of continued Fever. 



The following cafe of continued fever which I frequently faw 

 during its progrefs, as it is lefs complicate than ufual, may il- 

 luftratc this doctrine. Mafter S. D. an active boy about eight 

 years of age, had been in the fnow for many days, and fat in the 

 clallical fchool with wet feet ; he had alfo about a fortnight at* 

 tended a writing fchool, where many children of the lower or- 

 der were inftructed. He was feized on February the 8th, 1795, 

 with great languor, aiid pain in his forehead, with vomiting and 

 perpetual ficknefs ;' his pulfe weak, but not very frequent. He 

 took an emetic, and on the next day had a blifter, which check- 

 ed the ficknefs only for a few hours \ his fkin became perpetu- 

 ally hot, and dry ; and his tongue white and furred ; his pulfe 

 when afleep about 104 in a minute, and when awake about 



Fourth day of the difeafe. He has had another blifter, the 

 pain of his head is gone, but the ficknefs continues by intervals; 

 he reftifes to take any folid food, and will drink nothing but milk, 

 or milk and water, cold. He has two or three very liquid ftools 

 every day, which are fometimes green, but generally of a dark- 

 ifh yellow* with great flatulency both upwards and downwards 

 at thofe times. An antimonial powder was once given, but in- 

 itantly rejected % a fpoonful of decoction of bark was alfo ex- 

 hibited with the fame event. His legs are bathed, and his 

 hands and face are moiflened twice a day for half an hour in 

 warmifh water, which is neverthelefs much colder than his 

 fkin. 



Eighth day. His fkin continues hot and dry without any ob<- 

 fervable remiilions, with liquid ftools and much flatulency and x 

 ficknefs ; his water when obferved was of a ftraw colour. He 

 has afked for cider, and drinks nearly a bottle a day mixed 

 with cold water, and takes three drops of laudanum twice a 

 day. 



Twelfth day. He continues much the fame, takes no milk> 

 drinks only cider and water, fkin hot and dry, tongue hot and 

 furred, with liquid ftools, and ficknefs always at the fame time ; 

 fleeps much. 



Sixteenth day. Was apparently more torpid, and once rath- 

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