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that when the predisposing causes have been of 

 greater intensity, and the vital properties of the 

 blood have been still more impaired, the fever 

 comes on sooner after the chill, (which is thus 

 shortened,) and continues for about ten hours on 

 an average, or until the nutritive properties of the 

 blood are sufficiently restored to bring on the 

 sweating stage, when there follows an intermission 

 that continues until the third day, as in tertians : 

 that when the predisposing causes have been 

 of still greater intensity, and the blood has been 

 proportionally vitiated, the fever comes on sooner 

 again after the chill, (which is still further short- 

 ened,) and continues about fifteen or sixteen hours, 

 as in quotidians ; after which there is a brief inter- 

 mission until the next day : and lastly, that when 

 from exposure to causes of greater intensity, the 

 sanguineous fluid has been still further changed 

 from its natural state, the chill is scarcely formed 

 before the vital heat obtained by respiration ceases 

 to combine with the solids, and accumulates so as 

 to produce the preternatural temperature of fever, 

 which continues without any intermission till the 

 termination of the disease. 



1 have moreover shown, that the debility and 

 general malignity of the fever increases from 

 the quartan, (which very seldom if ever proves 

 fatal, except from improper treatment,) to the 

 quotidian, which often passes into the continued 

 type. Were it not that in all cases of fever the 



