SECT. VII. PHYSIOLOGY. 57 
-exxtv. Whatever increases the animal tempe- 
rature;) also increases every inflammatory disease, 
but cures the Indian cholera: inflammation is 
aggravated by accelerating the circulation; the 
Indian cholera is relieved by it. 
/,oxxv. The blood-vessels of all the viscera, are, 
indeed, fuller than natural, after the first stage; 
but the lower the animal heat is, and the weaker 
the: pulse, the more violent sare the spasms; 
no sooner does the motion of the blood become 
more rapid, and the animal heat natural, than the 
symptoms invariably vanish. “Si febris adsit, cor 
ac arterias refrigerat benigne.” Bontius. 
xxv. I shall not, here, enter into any alterca- 
tion with those who contend that spasm is caused 
by increased action of the nerves ; but I appeal to 
the daily experience of every unprejudiced phy- 
sician, whether he considers the vital force high 
or low when the pulse is imperceptible at the wrist, 
and the animal heat no higher than the surround- 
ing atmosphere; it requires little physiological 
discernment. to. know, that if both heat and cir- 
culation be not restored, death must inevitably 
follow.. Such is very frequently the state of a 
patient in the third. stage of Indian cholera; and 
if the spasm that attends it arise from an increase 
of nervous action, we may reasonably ask, when 
is it diminished ? 
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