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28 ANALYTIC SECT. IV. 
thick, viscous exudation, commonly called a 
clammy sweat, just apprehension may be enter- 
tained of approaching dissolution ; but in the ner- — 
vous diseases of Europe, this symptom may be 
often observed without any dangerous consequence. 
xLvi. Were it not for the expansion of the 
skin, the serum of the blood would run off, by 
the exhalants, as in the sudor anglicanus; when 
the extreme vessels become morbidly expanded, 
the skin becomes so also, by which means exuda- 
tion of the fluids is rendered impossible. 
xLvu. Exanthematous diseases being excepted, 
the skin reaches its maximum of expansion in 
bilious fever, and its maximum of contraction in 
the sudor anglicanus, paralysis, and those cases 
of continued fever which terminate in clammy 
sweats. i 
xtvut. The hot bath, by the excitement which 
it gives to the vital force at the surface of the 
body, can produce very considerable expansion 
of the skin; on those parts where it is thickest, 
such as the soles of the feet and the palms of the 
hands, a long continuance in the hot bath causes 
such an expansion, that it appears puckered and 
too large for the parts which it covers. 
xirx. The sweat is apt to condense in the 
pores of the skin, and make it appear unctuous and 
spotted, and exhale a disagreeable odour. Besides 
the detergent property of the hot bath, the 
