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But nothing fo much contributes to increafe the abforption in 

 a wound as covering the whole limb above the fore with a band- 

 age, which mould be fpread with fome plafter, as with emplaf- 

 trum de minio, to prevent it from flipping. By this artificial 

 tightnefs of the Ikin, the arterial puifations act with double their 

 ufual power in promoting the afcending current of the fluid in 

 the valvular lymphatics. 



Internally the abforption from ulcers fhould be promoted firft 

 by evacuation, then by opium, bark, mercury, fteel. 



3. Where the inflammation proceeds with greater violence 

 or rapidity, that is, when by the painful fenfation a more inordi- 

 nate activity of the organ is produced, and by this great activity 

 an additional quantity of painful fenfation follows in an increafing 

 ratio, till the whole of the fenforial power, or fpirit of animation, 

 in the part becomes exhauited, a mortification enfues, as in a 

 carbuncle, in inflammations of the bowels, in the extremities of 

 old people, or in the limbs of thofe who are brought near a 

 fire after having been much benumbed with cold. And from 

 hence it appears, why weak people are more fubject to mortifi- 

 cation than ftrong ones, and why in weak perfons lefs pain will 

 produce mortification, namely, becaufe the fenforial power is 

 fooner exhaufted by any excels of activity. I remember feeing 

 a gentleman who had the preceding day travelled two ftages in 

 a chaife with what he termed a bearable pain in his bowels 5 

 which when I faw him had ceafed rather fuddeniy, and without 

 a pafTage through him ; his pulfe was then weak, though not 

 very quick ; but as nothing which he fwallowed would continue 

 in his ftomach many minutes, I concluded that the bowel was 

 mortified ; he died on the next day. It is ufual for patients 

 linking under the fmall-pox with mortified puftules, and with 

 purple fpots intermixed, to complain of no pain, but to fay they 

 are pretty well to the laft moment. 



Recapitulation. 



IV. "When the motions of any part of the fyftem, in confe- 

 quence of previous torpor, are performed with more energy 

 than in the irritative fevers, a difagreeable fenfation is produced, 

 and new actions of fome part of the fyftem commence in con- 

 fequence of this fenfation conjointly with the irritation : which 

 motions conftitute inflammation. If the fever be attended with 

 a ftrong pulfe, as in pleurify, or rheumatifm, it is termed fyno- 

 cha fenfitiva or fenfitive fever with ftrong pulfe ; which is ufu- 

 ally termed inflammatory fever. If it be attended with weak 

 . Vol. I. S s pulfe, 



