212 SYMPTOMS OF FEVER. 



the disease becomes more aggravated, it as- 

 sumes the remittent form, and the symptoms 

 only remit, change their aspect, and do not 

 disappear. 



Fever rarely lays its victim pro- 

 Symptoms. , , 



strate at once. The malarious poison 



that engenders it has a period of incubation, and 

 breaks out some days after the primary symptoms 

 are evinced which are, a sense of lassitude and 

 languor, accompanied by yawning and stretch- 

 ing, restlessness, want of sleep, loss of appetite, 

 dull eyes, dizziness, and an incapacity to con- 

 centrate the ideas ; chills come over the body, and 

 a dull heavy pain racks the loins and kidneys, 

 which often cease to act. Then comes intense 

 headache, cramps which seem to draw up the 

 body, and the hot stage, which often brings 

 on delirium and a state of coma; from which 

 condition the patient either awakes in the next 

 world, or finds himself bathed in profuse per- 

 spiration, greatly prostrated, but relieved from 

 pain. 



