412 ESSAYS any OBSERVATIONS 
it caufed a conftant tremulous motion of 
the abdomen. | ) | 
2. THE heat, generally, did nde exceed 
102 degrees of Farenheit’s thermometer ; 
in fome it was lefs, it varied frequently, 
and was commonly nearly equal in all 
parts, the heat about the precord:a being 
feldom more intenfe than in the extremi- 
ties, when thefe were kept covered. In 
the firft day of the difeafe,fome had fre- 
quent returns of a fenfe of chillnefs, 
though there was not any abatement of 
their heat. In a few, there happened fo 
great a remiflion of the heat for fome. 
hours, when at the fame time the pulfe 
was foft and lefs frequent, and the fkin 
moift, that one, from thefe circumftances, 
might reafonably have hoped that the fe- 
ver would only prove a remittent or inter- 
mittent. About the end of the fecond 
day, the heat began to abate. 
3. THE fein was fometimes (though 
-yarely) dry ; but oftner, and indeed ge- 
nerally, it was moift and difpofed to 
feat. 3 
