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on it. I shall confine myself to the means of remedying 

 the effects of this too hot air, and that, too, according tp 

 the experiments I have made. 



1. The new comers in the inlands are subject to a hot 

 fever, or to the true cauzus of Hippocrates, unlike, how- 

 ever, to that which rages in Europe, both in its beginning 

 and progress, its state, and last stage. The word cauzus, 

 derived from the Latin caurns, I burn, is used here, be- 

 cause in that disease the patients are, as it were, in a 

 burning fire ; but the prostration of the nervous system is 

 so great, that they do not at all feel this heat : they are 

 only sensible of a pain in the head, and in the region of 

 the diaphragm and loins. 



The chief symptoms which are the characters of the 

 first stage of that disease, are an universal sinking of 

 strength, which can be produced by no other cause than 

 the malignity of the disease itself; a burning heat which 

 is successively felt in the parts that are necessary to life, 

 whilst a frozen and deadly cold often seizes upon, and 

 occupies the extremities ; the skin, the nostrils, the 

 tongue, and mouth, are extremely dry ; the breathing 

 hard and quick, the thirst unquenchable. The patients 

 complain of sharp pains in the diaphragm and loins ; the 

 urine is commonly red, sometimes in an imperfect 

 state; the nauseas, vomitings, anxieties, uneasiness, and 

 a dry cough quickly succeed one another; at last, de- 

 lirium, phrenzy, and convulsive fits terminate the disease 

 by death, if suitable assistance be not applied before the 

 fourth day. 



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