234 FEVERS. 



ation, that animals of tliis class, from their 

 simple diet and regular mode of living, can- 

 not be subject to such complicated disorders, 

 most of which, in the human species, evi- 

 dently result from irregularit}' and indiscre- 

 tion. Bringing this combination of circum- 

 stances into one point of view, I shall avail 

 myself of the advantages naturally arising 

 from observations upon tUepo/ifica/ abstru- 

 sity of one, and the paradoxical brightness of 

 technical obscurifi/ of the other; reducing the 

 whole class of febrile disquietudes simply to 

 two kinds, the symptomatic and inflamma- 

 tory only. 



A symptomatic fever is a degrce of inflam- 

 mation and increased circulation, occasioned 

 by some distinct or local pain, and is not a 

 disorder fab origincj within itself, but pal- 

 pably the effect of, and dependent upon, 

 some other for its production. This fever is 

 &o influenced by the cause, and so entirely 

 regulated by its changes, either for bctta^ or 

 worse, as to be constantly reduced by an alle- 

 viation of the original complaint, and totally 

 dispelled by a removal of the disease, to 

 •which it is a concomitant. This fever beinii 



