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But nothing fo much contributes to increafe the^abforption in. 

 a wound as covering the whole limb above the fore with a band- 

 age, which fhould be fpread with fome plafter, as with emplaf- 

 trum de minio, to prevent it from flipping. By this artificial 

 tightnefs of the (kin, the arterial pulfations aft with double their 

 ufu il power in promoting the afcending current of the fluid in 

 the valvular lymphatics. 



Internally the abforption from ulcers (hould be promoted firft 

 by evacuation, then by opium, bark, mercury, fteel. 



3. Where the inflammation proceeds with greater violence 

 or rapidity, that is, when by the painful fenfation a more inor- 

 dinate activity of the organ is produced, and by this great activity 

 an additional quantity of painful fenfation follows in anincreafing 

 ratio, till the whole of the fenforial power, or fpirit of animation, 

 in the part becomes exhaufted, a mortification enfues, as in a 

 carbuncle, in inflammations of the bowels, in the extremities of 

 old people, or in the limbs of thofe who are brought near a 

 fire after having been much benumbed with cold. And from 

 hence it appears, why weak people are more fubjel to mortifi- 

 cations than (Irong ones, and why in weak perfons lefspain will 

 produce mortification, namely, becaufe the fenforial power is 

 fooner exhaufted by an excefs of aftivity. I remember feeing 

 a gentleman who had the preceding day travelled two itages in 

 a chaife with what he termed a bearable pain in his bowels ; 

 which when I faw him had ceafed rather fuddenly, and without 

 a paflage through him ; his pulfe was then weak, though not 

 very quick; but as nothing which he fwallowed would continue 

 in his ftomach many minutes, I concluded that the bowel was 

 mortified ; he died on the next day. It is ufual for patients 

 finking under the fmall-pox with mortified puftules, and with 

 purple fpots intermixed, to complain of no pain, but to fay 

 they are pretty well to the bift moment. 



Recapitulation. 



IV. When the motions of any part of the fyftem, in confe- 

 quence of previous torpor, are performed with more energy 

 than in the irritative fevers, a dif agreeable fenation is produced', 

 and new actions of fome part of the fyftem commence in con- 

 fequence of this fenfation conjointly with the irritation : which 

 motions conftitute inflammation, If the fever be attended with 

 a ftrong pulfe, as in pleurify, or rheumatifm, it is termed fyno- 

 cha fenfitiva or fenfitive fever with ftrong pulfe ; which is ufu- 

 ally termed inflammatory fever. If it bs attended with weak 



VOL, I. S s pulfe, 



