THE LAWS OF ORGANIC 



CCXXVI. The views contained in the pre- 

 sent chapter, in regard to practice, are of vital 

 importance. They disclose principles which ex- 

 plain the difference between great heat that is 

 produced by the lungs, and the accumulation of 

 the same arising from diminished evaporation ; 

 and this knowledga at once suggests a mode of 

 treatment different from that pursued in many 

 cases of fever, and which is not derived from em- 

 piricism, but from more extended acquaintance 

 with the laws of the animal economy. The ap- 

 plication of these views to practice will be defer- 

 red till inflammation and fevers be considered in 

 a subsequent treatise. I may, at present, gener- 

 ally allude to a few of the characters which dis- 

 tinguish the production of great heat from its ac- 

 cumulation. 



1. Whenever the pulse is, for the most part, hard, strong, 



and frequent, the respirations more numerous than 

 natural, the heat of the skin greater than usual, and 

 the temperature of the body above the ordinary 

 standard, we may consider the additional heat as the 

 consequence of increased production. 



2. When the above states are modified in degree, accom- 



panied by a burning skin, and great restlessness of 

 mind, the augmentation of temperature is to be re- 

 ferred to increased generation and diminished evapo- 

 ration. 



3. When fever has continued for some time, until the se- 



cretions are evidently much disordered, and the sur- 

 face of the body shews strong marks of asthenic 



