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opinion is perfectly the same as to the sweats, when they 

 take place in the indicated time : if they be preceded 

 by the softness of the pulse, they announce the fall of the 

 eretisrm 



What remains of the sickness is carried off by bitters, 

 such as those they commonly use in Europe for the cure 

 of intermittent fevers. The patients recover pretty soon 

 by observing a suitable diet. 



2. The diminution of attacks, in this first sickness, 

 is often followed with another, which may be termed sy- 

 nocal fever rather than burning fever. I have observed, 

 that at Guadaloupe the new comers were more subject 

 to it than to the first. 



Without entering into the detail of the symptoms that 

 characterise it, since they differ from the disease that 

 I have just described, only by a few degrees, I will only 

 say, conformably to the remarks I have made upon it, 

 that it terminates commonly on the ninth day, and never 

 passes beyond the thirteenth or fourteenth day. The cri- 

 sis of this second disease is absolutely the same as that of 

 the first ; but we must observe, with respect to both, 

 that it happens on odd days only. This is to be pecu- 

 liarly attended to, in order not to disturb nature in its 

 operations. 



I shall observe, that, in spite of the best and most re- 

 gular administration of the proposed remedies, there 

 happens sometimes so considerable a weakness, that the 

 patients fall into the coma or soporific affection, before 



