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ed, and produced, from time to time, the obfervations and the 

 exertions already mentioned. 



Wine and beer were rigoroufiy abftained from during fix 

 months of the above hiftory ; and all the blood, whicfc was ta- 

 ken, was even to the laft buffy. Feb. 3, 1795. 



It has lately been aflerted, that the people of Holland are lefs 

 liable to confumption of the lungs, than thofe of many other 

 parts of Europe, which has been aicribed to their warmer cloth- 

 ing. I am aware of the difficulty of making fuch eilimates with 

 any great degree of certainty, but if fuch be the fact, it may in- 

 deed be afcribed with fome degree of probability to their ufing 

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

 feafon. Whence the lungs are not fo much expofed to the 

 great and fudden tranfition from very warm rooms into frofty 

 air, as in this country. And though the lungs have not a fen- 

 fation of cold or of chilneis like the external Ikin, in pafiing from 

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

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

 fyftem. But to this may be objected, that the hereditary pul- 

 monary confumption attacks the patient fo infallibly a few years 

 after puberty, that it does not appear to depend much on exter. 

 nal circumftances. 



8. Febrisfcrofuloja. The hectic fever occafioned by ulcers of 

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

 from that attending pulmonary confumption, being accompanied 

 with night-fweats and occafional diarrhoea. 



M. M. The bark. Opium internally. Externally cerufla 

 and bark in fine powder. Bandage. Sea-bathing. See Clafs 

 I. 2. 3. 21. and II. i. 4. 12. 



9. Felris ifchiadica. A hectic fever from an open ulcer be- 

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

 ceding. If the matter in this fituation lodges till part of it, I fup- 

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

 comes abforbed from fome other circum fiance j a fimilar hectic 

 fever is produced, with night-fweats, or diarrhoea. 



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



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

 fide. No fluctuation of matter could be felt ; fhe became hec- 

 tic with copious ntght-fweats, and occafional diarrhoea, for four 

 or five weeks ; and recovered by, I iuppofe, the total abforption 

 of the matter, and the reunion of the walls of the abfcefs. See 

 Clafs II. i. 2. 18. 



10. Febris Arthropucdica. Fever from the matter of difeafed 

 joints. Does the matter from fuppurating bones, which gener- 

 ally 



