528 CONSUMPTION. 



'vulgar, In all thofe internal decays of the human 

 Ipecies, where the chafm in the countenance 

 of the DOCTOR, and the ambiguous fhake of 

 the hand, (including the alternate conftrudlion 

 of hope and fear,) is intended to convince the 

 anxious attendant that fymptoms are obfcured 

 by circumjlancesy and certainty not to be 

 afcertained, 



A confumption may proceed from a non- 

 performance of the fondions to which many 

 parts of the animal ftrudure may be deftined, 

 not only from ruptures of the blood, or air 

 veflels in the lungs, (originating in caufes 

 repeatedly defcribed), terminating in ulcers ^ 

 tubercles, and callojities', but in zjchirrqfity of 

 the liver, and induration oi iovnt of tht glandular 

 parts, and many other internal complaints or 

 injuries to which the references, by fymptoms 

 remote from the feat of pain or difeafe, muft 

 be often deceptive, fo as in fome cafes to per- 

 plex more than dired:. This being a very fair 

 and candid ftate of the cafe before us, the reader 

 will do well to collect what information he 

 can from his attentive obfervations -, then com- 

 pare them with the mofl predominant fymp- 

 toms defcribed under the heads of different 



difeafes. 



