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lar mode of living, cannot be fubjccfl to fuch 

 complicated dilbrders, moil of which, in the 

 human fpecies, evidently refult from irregu- 

 larity and indifcretion. Bringing this com- 

 bination of circumftances into one point of 

 view, I fliall avail myfelf of the advantages 

 naturally arifmg from obfervations upon the 

 •political abflrufity of one, and the paradoxical 

 brip^htnefs of technical obfcurity of the other; 

 reducing the whole clafs of febrile difquietudes 

 fimply to two kinds, the fymptomatic and in- 

 flammatory only. 



A fymptomatic fever is a degree of inflam- 

 mation and increafed circulation, occafioned by 

 fome diftindl or local pain, and is not a dif- 

 order \ab origine) within itfelf, but palpably 

 the effeft of, and dependent upon, fome other 

 for its produdion. This fever is fo influenced 

 by the caufe, and fo entirely regulated by its 

 changes, either for better or worfe^ as to be 

 conflantly reduced by an alleviation of the ori- 

 ginal complaint, and totally difpelled by a re- 

 moval of the difeafe, to which it is a conco- 

 mitant. This fever being only a fymptom of 

 fome other, (the mere efleft of preternatural 



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