SUPPLEMENT 



TO 



CLASS IV. 



Sympathetic Theory of Fever. 



As fever consists in the increase or diminution of direct or re- 

 verse associated motions, whatever may have been the remote 

 cause of them, it properly belongs to the fourth class of diseases; 

 and is introduced at the end of the class, that its great difficulties 

 might receive elucidation from the preceding parts of it. These 

 I shall endeavour to enumerate under the following heads, trust- 

 ing that the candid reader will discover in these rudiments of the 

 theory of fever a nascent embryon, an infant Hercules, which 

 time may rear to maturity, and render serviceable to mankind. 



I. Simple fever of two kinds. 

 II. Compound fever. 

 lit. Termination of the cold fit. 

 IV. Return of the cold fit. 

 V. Sensation excited in fever. 

 VI. Circles of associated motions. 

 VII. Alternations of cold and hot fits. 

 VIII. Orgasm of the capillaries. 

 IX. Torpor of the lungs. 

 X. Torpor of the brain. 

 XI. Torpor of the heart and arteries. 

 XII. Torpor of the stomach and intestines. 



XIII. Case of continued fever explained. 



XIV. Termination of continued fever. 

 XV. Inflammation excited in fever. 



XVL Recapitulation. 



I. Simple Fever. 



1* When a small part of the cutaneous capillaries, with their 

 mucous or perspirative glands, are for a short time exposed to a 

 colder medium ? as when the hands are immersed in iced water 



