___A proper regimen is not only necessary during the fever 
wise after the patient begins to recover. By neglecting th 
_ relapse, or fall into other diseases, and continue weakly for 
The functions of the system are weak after a fever, and the diet 
ought tobe rather light for a time, taken often, if craved, and little 
ata time. Too much food, drink, exercise, company, &c., are _ 
carefully to be avoided. ‘The mind ought likewise 10 be kept easy, — 
and the patient should not attempt to pursue study, or any business 
that requires intense thinking, ae Se 
When the patient’s health is pretty well restored, he ought to 
aa a laxative, &e. 
onics, and strengthening medicines may be given on rece 
directed in iucerenitveneat® iit 4S € bh 5 ia 
SLOW OR NERVOUS FEVER. he 
Nervous fevers commonly attack persons ofa weak, relaxed habit, 
who neglect exercise, eat little solid food, study hard, and indulge in” ne 
spiritous liquors, fe 
Causes.—Nervous fevers may be occcasioned by whatever ! 
ses the spirits, or impoverishes the blood: as grief, fear, 
want of sleep, intense thought, living on poor watery diet; — 
ciency and unequal distribution of vital heat; consequently a de-— 
clension of the powers of Nature, viscidity of the fluids, a relaxed _ 
state of the arterial system. It is more common in damp, unwhole- _ 
some air, low, dirty houses, crowded streets, &c., and persons 4 
- constitutions have been broken by excessive yenery, frequent sa 
ions, OF excessive evacuations, are most liable to this disease. 
_ Keeping on wet clothes, lying on dainp ground, excessive fatigue, 
and whatever obstructs perspiration, or causes a spasmodic stricture 
of the solids, may likewise occasion nervous fevers ; and we may also 
add, frequent and great irregularities in diet. Too great abstinence, 
as well as excess, is hurtful. Nothing tends so much to preserve the 
body in a sound state, as a regular diet. ~ et ge 
The most general cause of this fever, is contagion, communic ated f 
through the medium of an impure or heated atmosphere, by concen- __ 
trated effluvia arising from the body of a person laboring under this __ 
“Specific disease. Some predisposition, however, is requisite, in 
order to enable contagion to generate this fever. ga set 
Symproms.—The slow, or nervous fever, generally sets in with re- _ 
markable mildness in its symptoms ; and although the patient expe- 
' ¥lences some trifling indisposition for several days, still he has no rea- 
son to suspect the approach of any severe disease. Then follow, de- 
_ jection of spirits, want of appetite, deep sighing, chills and flushings, 
_Weariness, nausea, prostration of strength and spirits, Jistlessne: 
_ heat in the palms of the hands and soles of the feety (a cert: 
i slow digestion,) while all the rest of the body is cold, 
‘fast ; a sensation like cold water thrown down the 
juick, weak, and unequal ; pale urine ; stupor ; hea 
+, sometimes with, and som 
