SIR D. J. CORRIGAN'S OBSERVATIONS. 405 



" Ask yourselves for what is it in typhus fever you 

 prescribe wine ? Is it for delirium ? No. Is it to pre- 

 vent its approach ? Again no. Do you give it for a 

 dry tongue ? Certainly not. What is it that, as you 

 consider a patient's state, would lead you to think of its 

 employment ? Is it not the state of the function of 

 circulation, taken as a whole, indexed to you by the 

 pulse on the one hand, and by the state of the capil- 

 lary system of circulation in the skin, on the other ? 



" It is for this you give it. It is the specific remedy 

 directed to remedy the general lesion of the function 

 of circulation, and hence in its administration you 

 may give it whether there is or is not delirium ; for 

 delirium may be present or absent in a case requiring 

 its exhibition for the function of circulation. You 

 should give it indifferently whether the tongue is 

 moist or dry ; for the tongue may be either, and 

 yet wine may be required ; and hence the tongue's 

 becoming moist is not an indication that you may 

 dispense with its use, nor is its continuing dry a sign 

 to make you discontinue it. You may give it with a 

 soft abdomen, or with an abdomen tympanitic, for 

 similar reasons. You are giving wine recollect, as 

 the specific remedy for the lesion of the function of 

 circulation (remember always, comprising under this 

 the capillary and cardiac circulation) ; and by the 

 state of pulse, and changes in the colour of the 

 maculae, you are to judge of the necessity of con- 

 tinuing, decreasing, or augmenting its dose. Under 



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