DUNCANS’ ANNALS OF MEDICINE For 1802. 
#* Terminations on the 8th, 10th, 12th, 
15th, 16th, 18th, and igih, in the cases of 
Hip ocrates, amount to no more than one- 
ninth of the whole while: our calculation 
makes the endings on these days toinclude a!- 
most all the instances of terminations of fe- 
ver on days non-critical. We also have se- 
venteen terminations on the thirteenth day, 
which none were observed by Hippocrates. 
His terminations on the sixth are considera- 
ble in number; ours, on the contrary, are 
very few.” 
Recoveries, the author also had occa- 
sion to observe, were as speedy, after 
terminations on non-critical days, as any 
others. ..., 
_From, the examination of the records 
of 296 cases, which he has digested into 
the-form: of a table, the author considers 
it as probable 
‘s that fever is an affection that. is 
not to be overcome but by the exertions of 
the system itself. . If this be allowed, all that 
ought tobe done toward its cure, is to re- 
move or prevent any such derangement of the 
functions as are incompatible with the con- 
tinuance’ of life. This done, we. may trust 
what is ‘farther’ to be performed to nature 
alone.” 
“Though he denies that medicine has in 
general any power of terminating the 
febrile state, or shortening the duration 
of the disease, he deems it efficacious in 
the cure of fever, by frequently serving 
to protract the complaint. The author 
is silent on the effects of ‘the cold ‘affu- 
sion, lately employed in the early stages 
of fever, but mentions having seen the 
disease arrested in its course by a medi- 
gine, which operated by violently vo- 
miting and purging, and afterwards pro- 
duced profuse perspiration. It was used 
by a Mr. Warren,on board one of his 
majesty’s ships; but the composition was 
unknown. 
ba dhce AMistory.of the case of a man, who dis- 
charged by the anus a portion of the intes- 
tines full thirteen inches in length. By Mr. 
John Bower, of Doncaster.) Communicated 
by Dr. George Pearson, of London.” 
The subject’ of this history, aged 40, 
had the misfortune, in the year 1796, to 
be rode over by a stage-coach. One of 
the wheels passed over his abdomen, be- 
tween the navel ‘and pubis, and ‘left a 
mark of the injury. By proper means 
he was in a fortnight considerably reco- 
vered ; but onthe seventeenth day from 
‘the accident, he was seized with a great 
general debility, which ‘continued ‘ten’ 
Minutes, and returned the following’ 
fight. On the subsequent morning’» - 
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«*—he parted, per anum, with full fourteen 
inches of his intestines, apparently a portion 
of the ilium, with a part of the mesentery ad- 
hering to it; after which, he had a lax stool, 
more in quantity than he ever got quit of at_ 
one time since the accident. He continued” 
in a laxed state for two or three weeks (tho” 
he could retain his feces) when a tumour ap- — 
atom below the navel, and in a few nt 
roke, and discharged a large quantity of 
matter, having a yellowish tinct, and a faint 
smell of feces. At times, his body would be 
so much distended with wind, as to force out 
the discharge to the distance of a yard or two. 
He got strength gradually, and, in harvest 
time, was able to walk into the fields. When - 
winter approached he was obliged to keep in. 
the house, and frequently in bed, as three or 
four small tumours appeared at diflerent 
times, and broke ; so that now there are five 
orifices. The two first which broke, are a 
little above the pubis ; the third, about one 
and a half inch below the nayel, and the two 
last just above Poupart’s ligament.” 
In the year 130] he was living, and 
his general health was much improved. 
His stools were frequent, and he was 
much troubled with flatulence, but most 
of the latter was discharged through the 
orifices, two of which were open. ‘The 
gut discharged was considered by Dr. 
Monro and Mr. Thomas, as an intus- 
susceptio, which had sloughed off. 
4, «© The history of a recovery from a singu-" 
Jar species of hiccup, which had subsisted for 
several months. By Dr. John Nelson Scott,” 
physician in the Isle of Maun.” 
This complaint occurred in a young. 
lady of a plethoric habit, and was only 
suspended during sleep. ‘Various medi- 
cines were employed without advany 
tage ; in about six months after a change® 
of residence, the complaint disappeared® 
without any obvious cause. In three 
years it again returned, and the author, 
after trying sulphur without’ effect, at’ 
last succeeded in removing it, by the ap- 
plication of a blister, so large as to cover 
the whole of the cervical vertebre-, 
- §. Communication on the good ef-: 
fects of the affusion of cold water in 
Typhus. By Dr. John Nelson Scott; 
physician in the Isle of Wight.” 
Dr. Scott’s experience confirms that 
of Dr. Currie, on the good effects of cold 
affusion; but he suggests to the conside- 
ration of medical men the propriety of 
giving an emetic dose of tartrite of anti- 
mony some considerable time previous’ 
to the washing, by way of: still further 
assisting in cutting ,short the ‘ morbid 
catenation of the system.’ Attention is: 
of course required by the author to the. 
