370 ON FEVER. 



evacuated by the ufual catarrhal difcharge, the 

 difeafe is called a cold ; but if the obftru8:ed 

 matter remain fixed upon any bowel, it may 

 affume the denomination and guife of fever, or 

 perhaps of fome other difeafe. 



That the Ancients held this analogy will ap- 

 pear from the following example : " ManafTeSj 

 " the hufband of Judith, as he was diligent over 

 " them that bound fheaves in the fields, the heat 

 *•' came upon his head and he died." Judith, 

 Chap. viii. St. Bernard fays, that the caufe of 

 this man's death was an immoderate running of 

 rheum out of his Head to the inner parts, which 

 rheum or humour was diflblved by the burning 

 heat. Conftantius fays fuch a difeafe arifes in- 

 differently from a hot or a cold caufe, caloris 

 Jeu Jrigoris i5iu ; and in the former cafe, ad - 

 vifes a fomentation of rofes infufed in cold rain 

 water, rofe-buds being held to the nofi;rils, alfo 

 cold infufion of the twigs and leaves of willows ; 

 in the latter, laudanum, thus, (lorax and caf* 

 torium. Hence, I fuppofe, came the notion of 

 a decodion of willow being ufeful in the gland- 

 ers. An Englifh writer, who lived in the reign 

 of Edward VI. calls the difeafe of Manafles a 

 poze. 



The fymptoms of fever in horfes, analogous 

 to thofe in our own fpecies, are either mild, 

 intermittent, inflammatory, or hedic and malig- 

 nant ; and there is an equal analogy in the clafs 



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