SUP. I. 14. i. THEORY OF FEVER. 49$, 



(hewed, that there was no increafe of aftion either of the kid- 

 neys, or of the urinary abforbents. 



The bathing his legs and hands and face for half an hour 

 twice a day feemed to refreih him, and fometimes made hi$ 

 pulfe flower, and thence I fuppofe ftronger. This feems to 

 have been caufed by the water, though fubtepid, being much 

 below the heat of his (kin, and confequently contributing to 

 cool the capillaries, and by fatiating the abforbents to relieve the 

 uneafy fenfation from the drynefs of the (kin. 



He continued the ufe of three drops of tinclure of opium 

 from about the eighth day to the twenty-fourth, and for the 

 three preceding days took along with it two large fpoonfuls of 

 an infufion of bark in equal parts of wine and water. The for- 

 mer of thefe by its ftimulus feemed to decreafe his languor for 

 a time, and the latter to ftrengthen his returning power of di- 

 geftion. 



The daily exacerbations or remiffions were obfcure, and not 

 well attended to ; but he appeared to be worfe on the four- 

 teenth or fifteenth days, as his pulfe was then quickeft, and his 

 inattention greateft ; and he began to get better on the twen- 

 tieth or twenty-firft days of his difeafe ; for the pulfe then be- 

 came lefs frequent, and his (kin cooler, and he took rather more 

 food : thefe circumftances feemed to obferve the quarter period.* 

 of lunation. 



XIV. Termination of continued Fever. 



1. When the ftomach is primarily affected with torpor not 

 by defect of ftimulus, but in confequence of the previous ex- 

 hauftion of its fenforial power ; and not fecondarily by its aflb- 

 ciation with other torpid parts ; it feems to be the general caufe 

 of the weak pulfations of the heart and arteries, and the confe- 

 quent increafed action of the capillaries, which conftitute con- 

 tinued fever with weak pulfe. In this fituation if the patient 

 recovers, it is owing to the renovation of life in the torpid ftom- 

 ach, as happens to the whole fyftem in winter-fleeping animals. 

 If he perifhes, it is owing to the exhauftion of the body for 

 want of nourtmment occafioned by indigeition ; which is haft- 

 ened by the increafed actions of the capillaries and abforbents. 



2, When the ftomach is primarily affected by defect of ftim- 

 ulus, as by cold or hunger ; or fccondavily by defect of the pow- 

 er of affociation, as in intermittent fevers ; or laftly in confe- 

 quence of the introduction of the fenforial power of fenfation, 

 as in inflammatory difeafes ; the actions of the heart and arte- 

 ries are not diminifhed, as when the ftomach is primarily af- 

 fected 



