CLASS tt. i. & 14. OF SENSATION. 



14. Felrts wnerea. From the abforption of the matte* from 

 Venereal ulcers and fuppurating bones. See Syphilis, II. i. 5. 2. 



M. M. Any mercurial calx. Sarfaparilla ? Mezereon ? 



15. Febris a fame putrida* Fever from putrid fanies. When 

 parts of the body are deitroyed by external violence, as a bruife, 

 or by mortification, a putrefaction foon fucceeds j as they are 

 kept in that degree of warmth and moiilure, by their adhefioli 

 to the living parts of the body, which moil forwards that proc* 

 efs. Thus the floughs of mortified parts of the tonfils give fe- 

 tor to the breath in fome fevers ; the matter from putrefying 

 teeth, or other fuppurating bones, is particularly offenfive j and 

 even the fcurf, which adheres to the tongue, frequently acquires 

 a bitter tafte from its incipient putridity* This material differs 

 from thofe before mentioned, as its deleterious property depends 

 on a chemical rather than an animal procefs. 



1 6. fiebris puerpera. Puerperal fever. It appears from fome 

 late diflections, which have been publifhed, of thofe women who 

 have died of the puerperal fever, that matter has been formed in 

 the omentum, and found in the cavity of the abdomen, with 

 fome blood or fanies. Thefe parts are fuppofed to have beeri 

 injured by the exertions accompanying labour ; and as matter in 

 this vifcus may have been produced without much pain, this 

 difeafe is not attended with arterial ftrength and hard full pulfe, 

 like the inflammation of the uterus ; and as the fever is of the 

 inirritative or typhus kind, there is reafon to believe, that the 

 previous exhauftion of the patient during labour may contribute 

 to its production ; as well as the abforption of a material not 

 purulent but putrid j which is formed by the delay of extrava- 

 fated or dead matter produced by the bruifes of the omentum, 

 or other viicera, in the efforts of parturition, rather than by pur- 

 ulent matter, the confequence ot fuppu ration* The pulfe i$ 

 generally about 1 20 when in bed, and in the morning ; and is 

 increafed to 134, or more, when the patient fits up, or in the 

 evening paroxyfm. The pulfe of all very weak patients incrcai- 

 es in frequency when they fit up ; becaufe the expenditure ol 

 fenforial power neceflfary to preferve a erect polture deducts fo 

 much from their general ftrefigth ; and hence the pulfe becomes 

 weaker* and in confequence quicker. See Sect. XII. i. 4. 



Whence I fufpect that the puerperal fever is diftinguiilted 

 from the hectic fever, by the former being produced and fup- 

 ported by the abforption of a putrid fanies, aiifing from dead 

 parts of the omentum or rnefentery ; and the latter being pro- 

 duced and fupported by the abforption of purulent nutter, 

 which is the confequcncc.' of inflammation, after it h::s b6en ox- 

 ited l?y expofure to ihc- air; and rlru hau'; they differ in 

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