BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. ~ 
I wish to inspire not only patients in this fever, but their physi- 
cians also, with unceasing and unabated hope to, the very last ex- 
tremity. The changes for the better are often as sudden and un- 
foreseen, as those for the worse. The last gasp alone should induce — 
ve over the patient. a7 
= PUTRID, MALIGNANT, YELLOW, AND SPOTTED 
eee as FEVERS. oe Soe ee 
= ese may be classed together, because they are each produced ~ 
_ by similar causes, and require very little, if any, difference of treat- ~ 
- ment. To this class also belong the jail-hospital fever, and the 
____—s pestilence. ‘These fevers are of a malignant character, and putre- 
__ faction takes place towards their close. bi 
—This fever is occasioned by foul air, putrid animal and 
effluvia, or infectious particles. Confined air, crowded 
_ with people, and not properly ventilated, is a frequent cause. A 
___ €lose constitution of the air, with long rainy and foggy weather, im= 
~_ pedes perspiration, and therefore occasions putrid fevers. Damaged 
_ grain, dry hides, dead carcasses, tainting the air, especially in hot 
Seasons, are very apt to occasion putrid diseases. ‘They may also be 
produced by the contiguity of burying grounds, slaughter houses, 
&c. The obstruction of insensible perspiration, is no uncommon 
_ __ eause of this class of fevers ; for the retention of those particles with- 
in the body, which ought to have been thrown out of it, may, and 
| often does, occasion a.speedy putrefaction, especially when there is 
_. the least predisposition to such a dissolution. 
We shall only add, that putrid and malignant fevers are highly in- 
e fectious, and are therefore to be communicated by contagion. _ For 
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3 pain im the temples and orbitof the eye ; the eye heavy, 
h, or inflamed ;. the face bloated, and of a cadaverous aspects — 
difficult respiration, frequent sighing, wandering pains, 
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