CLASS I. 2. 1. 2. OF IRRITATION. 53 



sis or death of some other part of the body; as of the spleen, 

 when a tumour is felt on the left side, as in some intermittents; 

 or of the kidneys, when the urine continues pale and in small 

 quantity. Does the revivescence of these affected parts, or their 

 torpor, recurring at intervals, form the paroxysms of these fe- 

 vers? and their permanent revivescence establish the cure? See 

 Class IV. 2.1.19. 



The inirritative fever differs from the puerperal and from the 

 hectic fever, by the permanent inactivity of the stomach, which 

 in this disease admits of no solid nutriment. See Class II. 1. 6. 

 16. and SuppJ. I. 12. 



M. M. Wine and opium in small quantities repeated every 

 three hours alternately; small repeated blisters; warm but fresh 

 air; sorbentia; nutrientia; transfusion of blood. Small electric 

 shocks passed through the brain in all directions. Oxygene air? 



2. Paresis inirritativa. Inirritative debility. A defective ac- 

 tion of the irritative motions without increase of the frequency 

 of the pulse. It continues three or four weeks like a fever, and 

 then either terminates in health, or the patient sinks into one 

 kind of apoplexy, and perishes. Many symptoms, which attend 

 inirritative fevers, accompany this disease, as cold hands and 

 feet at periodic times, scurf on the tongue, want of. appetite, 

 muddy urine, with pains of the head, and sometimes vertigo/, 

 and vomiting. 



This disease differs from the inirritative fever by the pulse 

 not being more frequent than in health. The want of appetite 

 and of digestion is a principal symptom, and probably is the 

 cause of the universal debility, which may be occasioned by the 

 want of nourishment. The vertigo is a symptom of inirritabili- 

 ty, as shewn in Class IV. 1 2. 6. the muddy urine is owing to 

 increased absorption from the bladder in consequence of the di- 

 minished cutaneous and cellular absorption, as in anasarca, ex- 

 plained in Sect. XXIX. 5. 1. and is therefore a consequence of 

 the inirritability of that part of the system; the foul tongue is 

 owing to an increased absorption of the thinner part of the mu- 

 cus in consequence of the general deficiency of fluid, which 

 should be absorbed by the skin and stomach. The sickness is 

 owing to decreased action of the stomach, which is probably 

 the primary disease, and is connected with the vertigo. 



M. M. An emetic. Calomel, grains iv. once or twice. Then 

 a blister. Peruvian bark. Valerian. Columbo. Steel. Opi- 

 um and wine in small quantities, repeated alternately every three- 

 hours. Small electric percussions through the stomach. 



3. Somnus intcrruptus. Interrupted sleep. In some fevers, 

 where the inirritability is very great, when the patient falls asleep, 



