428 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
dc. the more the eyes are inflamed, the 
greater their inability is to bear light, and 
the more the face is flufhed at the firft at- 
tack, the fever and all the fymptoms (VI.) 
in the firft /fadium will be the more vio- 
jent. 2. The more intenfe the fymptoms 
are in ‘the firft ftate, the fooner will the 
fever terminate. -°3. The fooner the dif- 
eafe runs thro’ the firtt fadium, the fhorter 
will be the duration of the fecond, ef ¢ 
contra. 4. The fhortéer the’duration is of 
the firft, the greater'and more certain’is 
the danger in the fecond ftate... For, when 
the fever terminated before the béginning 
of the third day, death feemed inevitably 
to‘be'the confequence, as‘ there’ was then 
no poflibility of fapporting the pulfe, and 
as all the bad fymptoms were then hurried 
of with fuch precipitation, that the patient 
generally died before the end of the fifth 
day, excepting a confiderable coolnefs of 
the weather happily interveened ; but, on 
the contrary, it was a favourable circum- 
{tance when the fever was protracted to 
the-end of the third day, without any re= 
markable hardnefs or depreflion of the © 
pulfe, 
