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mouth and noftrils. This alfo occurs in the cold fits of interrait- 

 tents. In thefe cafes I have alfo found the tongue cold to the 

 touch of the finger, and the breath to the back of one's hand, 

 when oppofed to it* which are very inaufpicious fymptoms, and 

 generally fatal. In fevers with inirritability it is generally el- 

 teemed a good fymptom, when the noftrils and tongue become 

 moid after having been previoufly dry , as it (hews an increafed 

 aftion of the mucous glands of thofe membranes, which were be- 

 fore torpid. And the contrary to this is the fades Hippocr.uica, 

 or countenance fo well delcribed by Hippocrates, which is pale, 

 cold, and ihrunk ; all which are owing to the inactivity oi : the 

 fecerning vefiels,the palenels from there being lefs red blood pail- 

 ing through the capillaries, the coldnefs of the fkin from there 

 being lefs fecretion of perfpirable matter, and the ihrunk appear- 

 ance from there being lefs mucus fecreted into the cells of the 

 cellular membrane. See Glafs IV. 2. 4. 1 1. 

 M. M. Blifters. Incitantia. 



5. Ur'ina parcior pallida. Paucity of pale urine, as in the cold 

 fits of intermittents ; it appears in fome nervous fevers through- 

 out the whole difeafe, and feems to proceed from a palfy of the 

 kidneys ; which probably was the caufe of the fever, as the fever 

 fometimes ceafes, when that fymptom is removed : hence the 

 ftraw-coloured urine in this fever is fo far falutary, as it (hews 

 the unimpaired action of the kidneys. 



M. M. Balfams, eiTential oil, afparagus, rhubarb, a blifter. 

 Cantharides internally. 



6. Torpor hepaticus. Paucity of bile from a partial inaction 

 of the liver , hence the bombycinous colour of the fkin, grey 

 {tools, urine not yellow, indigeftion, debility, followed by tym- 

 pany, dropfy, and death. 



This paralyfis or inirritability of the liver often deftroys thofe 

 who have been long habituated to much fermented liquor, and 

 have fuddenly omitted the ufe of it. It allo deitroys plumbers 

 and houfe-painters, and in them feems a fubilitute for the colica 

 iaturnina. See Seel:. XXX. 



M. M. Aloe and calomel, then the bark, and chalybeates. 

 Mercurial ointment rubbed on the region of the liver. Rhubarb, 

 three or four grains, with opium half a grain to a grain twice a 

 day. Equitation, warm bath for half an hour every clay. 



7. Torpor pancreatis. Torpor of the pancreas. I law what 

 I conjectured to be a tumour of the pancreas with indigeilion, 

 and which terminated in the death of the patient. He had been 

 for many years a great confuiner of tobacco, infomuch that he 

 chewed that noxious drug all the morning, and fmoked it all the 

 afternoon. As the fecretion from the pancreas refembles iuliva 



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