tion, with a ith a woollen n cloth, over the whole body, helps are atly i 
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be _ REMITTENT FEVER, 
This fever takes its name from a remission of the symptoms, which 
happens sooner or later , and generally before the eighth day. The 
remission is commonly preceded by a gentle sweat, after which 
the patient feels greatly relieved, but in a few hours the fever 
returns.—These remissions return at very irregular peri : 
nearer, however, that the fever approaches to a regular inte 
the less is the danger. This species of fever may be 
the nextin grade of severity above the intermitting feve 
Cavsks.—Remitting fevers prevail in low marshy countries, 
abounding with wood and stagnating water ; but they prove most 
fatal in places where great heat and moisture are combined 
some parts of the southern and western states. 
Sxmrtoms.—The first symptoms of this fever are generally, = 
ing, stretching, pain, languor, head, wi 
nate fits of -heat and cold. a ad, vi 
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is disease, as they 
€ year, and the con- 
Sometimes the bilious Symptoms predomi- 
nate, sometimes the nervous, and at other times the putrid. Nor is 
it uncommon to find a succession of each of these, or a complica- 
tion of all of them in the same person. : Ege: 
Dret.— When there aresymptoms of inflammation, the diet should 
be slender and the drink weak and diluting. But when nervous or 
‘putrid symptoms prevail, it will be necessary to support the patient 
_ with food and liquors of a more generous nature. We should be 
cautious, however, in the use of things of a heating quality, as this 
fever is frequently changed into a continual, by a hot regimen and 
improper medicines. > Rie as? gy <ast.c 
Whatever the symptoms are, the patient ought to be kept cool, — 
quiet, and clean. His apartment large and well ventilated, by let-— 
ting in air at the doors and windows; it ought likewise to be sprin 
.  kled with vinegar, juice of lemon and the like, and sliced 
_ may be placed about the room. His linen, bed clothes, & 
: vently, changed, and all his excrements immediately 
lings are of great importance and must aot be nes 
“Trearmenr.—Here again the 
