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‘bed, and the dilating drink, will relax the univerfal fpafm,. which Generally affects. 
thefkin at the beginning of a fever , it will open the pores, and promote the peripi«, 
ration, by means of which the fever. may often be carried off. But, inflead of this, ‘ 
the common prattice js to heap clothes upon the patient, and to give him things ot . 
a hot nature, as {pirits, {piceries, &c. which fire his blood, increafe the fpafms, and :; 
render the difeafe more dangerous. In all fevers 4 proper attention fhould be paid to . 
a patient’s longings. Thefe are the calls of Nature, and often point out what may be» 
of real ufe. Patients are hot indeed to be indulged in every thing that the fickly ap. 
petite may crave; but it is generally right to let them have a litte of what they 
eagerly defire, though it may not feem altogether proper. What the patient longs 
for, his ftomach will a a and fuch things have fometimes me ithe 
“py effect. ; 
. Or INTERMIT.TING FEVERS, on AGUES, 
THE feveral kinds of intermitting fevers, or agues, take their names from the 
period in which the fit returns, as quotidian, tertian, quartan, ec. They are gene. 
rally occafioned by efluvia from putrid ftagnated water. This isevident from their - 
abounding in rainy feafons, and being moft frequent in countries where the foil is 
marfhy, as in Holland, the Fens of Cambridgethire, the Hundreds of Effex, 8c. 
This difeafe may alfo be occafioned by eating too much ftone-fruit, by a poor watery 
diet, damp houfes, evening dews, lying upon’ the damp ground, watching, fatigue, 
depreffing paffions, and the like. When the inhabitants of a high country retire co - 
a low one, sah aes apt to prove fatal. In a word, whatever relaxes the folids, dimi- 
nifhes the perfpiration, or obftruéts the 7 in so tutegs aime 
difpofes the body to agues. mae 
CURE—As the chief intentions of cure in an haan ea ee folids, in 
promote pér{piration, the patient ought totake as much exercife between the firs as 
hecan bear. If he be ableto go abroad, riding on horfeback, or in a carriage, 
will be of great fervice. “But, if he cannot bear that kind of exercife, he ought to | | 
take fuch as‘his ftrength will permit. Nothing tends more to prolong an interit-_ 
ting fever, than indulging a lazy indolent difpofition. In this difeafe, the ftomach - 
is generally loaded with cold vifcid phlegm, and frequently great quantities of bile, 
lifcharge by v vomits ts which plainly poines out the neceffity of fuch evanuationta! 
‘ot ‘the patient takes any other al 
ris phlegm bowelai ae io 
