386 FEVERS AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



fever whicli generally shows itself before the exact nature of the 

 attack is made manifest, and though it runs high, yet it has no 

 tendency in itself to produce fatal results, subsiding, as a matter 

 of course, with the inflammation which attends it. The same 

 happens in severe injuries ; but here also, if there is no inflamma- 

 tion, there is no fever ; so that the same rule applies as where 

 there is an external cause. 



The treatment of this kind of fever is always merged in that 

 which is necessary for the attendant inflammation, and this being 

 removed the fever subsides ; it therefore requires no special notice 

 to be taken of it, or any remedy to be directed to it. 



