On Medical Entomology . 23?. 



Tl^.e course of the meningo-gastric .or , pimple biiicun 

 frvers is also subject to a regular order.. The best charac- 

 terized are dissipated by dikiting and acickdous beverages 

 preceded by an emetic (antimoniated tartrite of potash). 



The case is not akogcther the same with adeno-mcnm- 

 gian fevers, mncoiu or pituitons. Being produced by debi- 

 litating causes, they do not leave to nature strength neces-. 

 sary to re-act properly; which gives rise*to frequent anoma- 

 lies, tu complications more or less fatal ; in a word, to anx 

 inextricable variety of symptoms, which are renewed inde- 

 finitely, notwithstanding the best combined assistance. It 

 was to remedy these accidents that Plenciz '"*, Sarconnef, 

 Rcederer, and Wcgler J, employed vesicatories, which are 

 not indicated in simple adeno-meningian fevers. 



The principal distinguishing signs of adynamic or putrid 

 fevers are .weakness and dejection. A manifest tcndencv to 

 decomposition is observed in the bodies of individuals at- 

 tacked by them. To reanimate a machine, the spriuf^s of 

 which seem to have lost their actioij, speedy recourse must 

 be had to tonics, and those must be chosen the enerfiy of 

 which is irrevocably confirmed. It is on tliis account that 

 vesicatories, either fixed or changed, as circumstances may 

 require, and seconded by vinous, alcoholic:, and campho- 

 rated potions, perfectly answer the purpose proposed, and 

 deserve, in every respect, the preference generally granted 

 to them. 



The extreme danger which accompanies ataxic fevers 

 would be sufficient to authorise the denomination of mu- 

 lignant, by which they have long been distinguished, were 

 this term less ambiguous, and did it not furnish arms to the 

 detractors of mecUcine§. It is no longer, indeed, a sin)ple 

 prostration of strength. The disorder is not confined to 

 weakening the vital principle and troubling some of lis 

 functions. It is immediately to the brain that ataxic fevers 

 carry their fatal infiuenee. Ought we then to be astonished 

 at the alarming phrenomcna which succeed each other with 

 prodigious rapidity, and against which the resources of art 

 often fall ? As lung as the least hope exists, vesicatories 

 are the sacred anchor, which one ouglit to trust to for a 

 safe arrival in port. It will be proper to join with them 

 some auxiliary means, but uone caji be substituted in their 



• Act* ft Ohs. M'-»1ica, Vruv,. 17 S3, 

 t Storiii ragion fie' nisli, &r. i\apo:i 1764. 

 1 Tract, dc ni'Jibo niucoso. Goeiting. 17K3. 

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