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centrate about the nervous centres as is 

 observed elsewhere at the outset of certain 

 violent fevers, in the typhus and typhoid fever 

 of man, for instance and some of their number 

 may perish the victims of these nervous dis- 

 orders, and even fall as if struck with electri- 

 city. They die apparently from the result of 

 the typhic poison; for at this second period, 

 we do not trace in the nervous centres those 

 injuries which might account for so sudden a 

 death. 



When the respiratory apparatus concentrates 

 upon it the febrile congestion, the breathing 

 becomes painful, accelerated, embarrassed, 

 sometimes convulsive, and a deep, oppressive 

 cough is heard from time to time. The 

 animal, under the yoke of this oppressive 

 uneasiness, turns his head from right to left, 

 scents, and seems to question his flanks, where 

 the seat of the disorder is ; and then, whether 

 the pulmonary affection is congestive or in- 

 flammatory or emphysematous, he may die 

 of the consequences of obstruction to the 

 pulmonary circulation and from the altera- 

 tion of the blood, under the influence of a 



