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fis. or death of iome other part of the body ; as of the fpleen, 

 when a tumour i;, felt on the left fide, as in fome intennittents ; 

 or of th>; - when the urine continues pale and in imall 



tity. Docs the revivefcence of theie affected parts, or their 

 torpor, recurring at intervals, form the paroxyfms of theft fevers ? 

 and their permanent revivefcence eftabliih the cure ? See Clais 

 IV. 2. I. 19. 



The inirritative fever differs from the puerperal and from the 

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

 in this difeafe admits of no folid nutriment. See Clafs II. i. 6. 

 1 6. and Suppl. I. 12. 



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



' three hours alternately j fmall repeated blifters ; warm but f re ill 



air; forbentia ; nutrientia ; transfufion of blood. Small electric 



ilioc". ihvough the brain in all directions. Oxygene air ? 



2. Purefts imrritaii'va. Inirritative debility. A defective ac- 

 tion of the irritative motions without increafe of the frequency 

 of the pulfe. It continued three or four weeks like a fever, and 

 then either terminates in health, or the patient finks into one kind 

 of apoplexy, and perifhes. Many fymptoms, which attend ini; 

 tive fevers, accompany this difeafe, as cold hands and feet ai 

 riodic times, fcurf on the tongue, want of appetite, muddy 

 urine, with pains of the head, and fometimes vertigo, and vom- 

 iting. 



This difeafe differs from the inirritative fever by the pulfe 

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

 and of digeftion is a principal fymptorn, and probably is 

 cr.ufe of the umverfal debility, which may be occafioned by the 

 want of nouriihrnent. The vertigo is a fymptom of inirritabil- 

 ity, as fhcwn in Clafs IV. i. 2. 6. the muddy urine is owing to 

 increafcd abforption from the bladder in ccnfequence of the di- 

 minifhed cutaneous and cellular abforption, as in anafarca, ex- 

 plained in Sect. XXIX. 5. i. and is therefore a confequence of 

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

 owing to an increafed abforption of the thinner part of the mu- 

 cus in confequence of the general deficiency of fluid, which 

 fhould be abforbed by the (kin and ftomach. The ficknefs is ow- 

 ing to decreafed action of the ftomach, which is probably the 

 primary difeafe, and is connected with the vertigo. 



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

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

 um and wine in fmall quantities, repeated alternately every three 

 hours. Small electric percuffions through the ftomach. 



3. Somnus interritptiis. Interrupted ileep. In fome fevers, 

 where the inirritability is very greai> when the patient falls afleep, 



the 



