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would be favoured by these circumstances, which, 

 as we have repeatedly observed, appear precisely 

 in this state of the body, and rather from the effect 

 than as the cause of the febrile disease. All the 

 accompanying symptoms indicate a general ner- 

 vous affection predominating in the organs destin- 

 ed to perform the animal functions. 



An inclination then, to found on this basis the 

 chimerical existence of a worm fever, is, in my 

 opinion, a dangerous error in practice. 



(88) Waaler, Diss, de morbo mucosa / Gottin- 

 gae, 1765,4°. 



{Sd) Werner, Verm, intest, brevis exposit. con- 

 tin, secunda, etc. p. 4. 



(90; See my JSTotes medico -pratiques f etc. sec, 

 partie, cap. i, class, ii and iii. 



(91) See §^ LXXVI, LXXVII, LXXVIII, 

 LXXIX, LXXX. 



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