238 CONSUMPTION. 

 gaj'y in all thofe internal decays of the human • 

 fpecies, where the chafm in the countenance 

 of the DOCTOR, and the ambiguous fii a ke of 

 the head (including the alternate conftrudion 

 of hope and fear), is intended to convince the 

 anxious attendant that fymptoms are obfcured 

 by circumjiances, and certainly not to be afcer^ 

 tained, 



A confumption may proceed from a non- 

 performance of the functions to whiLh many 

 parts of the animal llrudure may be dcilined, 

 not only from ruptures of the bloud, or air vef- 

 fels in the lungs, (originating in caufes repeat- 

 edly defcribed), terminating in z^forj, tubercles^ 

 and callofaies '^ but in 2.fcirrbcjlty of the liver ^ 

 and induration of ibme of the glandidar parts, 

 and many other internal complaints or in- 

 juries to which the references, by fymptoms 

 remote from the feat of pain or difeafe, muil 

 be cften deceptive, fo as in feme caies to per- 

 plex more than diredt. Thi§ being a very fair 

 and candid ftate of the cafe before us, the reader 

 will do well to colledt what information he 

 can from his attentive obfervations ; then com- 

 pare them with the mod predominant fymp- 

 toms defcribed under the heads of different 



difeafesy 



