CLASS II. 1. 6. 8. OP SENSATION. 255 



and produced, from time to time, the observations and the 

 exertions already mentioned. 



Wine and beer were rigorously abstained from during six 

 months of the above history; and all the blood, which was taken, 

 was even to the last buffy. Feb. 3, 1795. 



It has lately been asserted, that the people of Holland are less 

 liable to consumption of the lungs, than those of many other parts 

 of Europe, which has been ascribed to their warmer clothing. 

 I am aware of the difficulty of making such estimates with any 

 great degree of certainty, but if such be the fact, it may indeed 

 be ascribed with some degree of probability to their using very 

 warm clothing, but not very warm rooms during the winter sea- 

 son. Whence the lungs are not so much exposed to the great 

 and sudden transition from very warm rooms into frosty air, as 

 in this country. And though the lungs have not a sensation of 

 cold or of chilness like the exernal skin, in passing from very 

 warm air into great cold, often much below the freezing point, 

 yet they are liable to inflammation, like other parts of the sys- 

 tem. But to this may be objected, that the hereditary pulmonary 

 consumption attacks the patient so infallibly a few years after 

 puberty, that it does not appear to depend much on external cir- 

 cumstances 



8. Febris scrofulosa. The hectic fever occasioned by ulcers ef 

 the lymphatic glands, when exposed to the air, does not differ 

 from that attending pulmonary consumption, being accompanied 

 with night-sweats and occasional diarrhea. 



M. M. The bark. Opium internally. Externally cerussa 

 and bark in fine powder. Bandage. Sea-bathing. See Class I. 

 2.3. 21. and II. 1.4. 12. 



9. Febris Ischiadica. A hectic fever from an open ulcer be- 

 tween the muscles of the pelvis, which differs not from the pre- 

 ceding. If the matter in this situation lodges till part of it, I sup- 

 pose, becomes putrid, and aerates the other part; or till it be- 

 comes absorbed from some other circumstance; a similar hectic 

 fever is produced, with night sweats or diarrhoea. 



Mrs. , after a lying-in, had pain on one side of her loins, 



which extended to the internal part of the thigh on the same 

 side. No fluctuation of matter could be felt; she became hectic 

 with copious night-sweats, and occasional diarrhosa, for four or 

 five weeks; and recovered by, I suppose, the total absorption of 

 the matter, and the reunion of the \valls of the abscess. See 

 Class II. 1. 2. 18. 



10. Febris Jlrthropuodka. Fever from the matter of diseased 

 joints. Does the matter from suppurating bones, which generally 



