

SUPPLEMENT 



TO 



CLASS IV. 



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Sympathetic Theory of Fever. 



As fever confifts in the increafe or diminution of direft or 

 reverfe afibciated motions, whatever may have been the remote 

 caufe of them, it properly belongs to the fourth clafs of difeaf- 

 es ; and is introduced at the er\d of the clafs, that its great dif- 

 ficulties might receive elucidation from the preceding parts of 

 it. Thefe I fhall endeavour to enumerate under the following 

 heads, trufling that the candid reader will difcover in thefe ru- 

 diments of the theory of fever a nafcent embryon, an infant 

 Hercules/ which Time may rear to maturity, and render fervice- 

 able to mankind. 



I. Simple fever of two kinds. 

 II. Compound fever. 



III. Termination of the cold fit. 



IV. Return of the cold fit. 



V. Seiifation excited in fever. 



VI. Circles of aflbciated motions. 

 VII. Alternations of cold and hot fits. 

 VIII. Orgafm of the capillaries. 



IX. Torpor of the lungs. 



X. Torpor of the brain. 



XI. Torpor of the heart and arteries. 

 XII. Torpor of the ftomach and inteftines. 



XIII. Cafe of continued fever explained. 



XIV. Termination of continued fever. 

 XV. Inflammation excited in fever. 



XVI. Recapitulation. 



I. Simple Fever. 



i, When a fmall part of the cutaneous capillaries with their 

 mucous or perfpirative glands are for a fhort time expofed to a 

 colder medium, as when the hands are immerfed in iced water 



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