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of a centrifuge, which is then revolved 4000 times per 

 minute. The fat in the milk collects at the center, and 

 may be drawn off with a tube inserted. The milk 

 obtained should contain the same amount of fat as 

 mother's milk, and by the addition of 35 gin. of lac- 

 tose to the liter, a milk is produced which resembles 

 human milk very closely in composition. This should 

 be sterilized. 

 Fever. See Illus. Diet.) F., Absorption, a fever 

 often occurring during the first 12 hours after parturi- 

 tion. F., Acclimating, F., Acclimation-. Syn- 

 onym of Texas Fever. F., Adenomeningeal, a slow 

 puerperal fever attended with cerebral disturbance. 

 F., African Hemoglobinuric. Synonym of Black- 

 water-fever. F., Albumose, a fever produced experi- 

 mentally in an animal by injecting protoalbumose or 

 deuteroalbumose. F., Algid. See under Algid ( Illus. 

 Diet. '). F., Angiocardiac, F., Angeiocardiac, that 

 attending endocarditis. F., Aphthous. See Foot and 

 Mouth Disease (Illus. Diet. ). F., Army, typhus fever. 

 F., Arthritic, fever with swelling of the joints. F., 

 Auriginous, jaundice. F., Autumnal, typhomala- 

 rial fever prevalent in the autumn. F., Bath, a fever- 

 ish condition due to excess in the use of warm baths. 

 F.. Bilious Remittent. 1. Sometimes used as a 

 synonym of Mediterranean fever. 2. Relapsing 

 fever. F., Bilious Typhoid. Synonym of Yellow 

 Fever. F., Black. (See Illus. Diet.) 2. See F., 

 Shotted (2). F., Black water. (See Illus. Diet.) 

 Syn.,/'.. Hemoglobinuric; F., Bilious remittent ; F., 

 Bilious hematuria; F., Hematuric. According to R. 

 Koch and others, in the majority of cases it is the re- 

 sult of quinin-poisoning in malarial patients. F., 

 Bone, septicemia in workers in bone from wounds re- 

 ceived on the fingers. F., Boohoo. See Boo/100 

 Illus. Diet.). F., Bookhar, the fever in India due 

 to heat. F., Brain. (See Illus. Diet.) 2. Synonym 

 of Typhus. F., Brain-water, that attending hydro- 

 cephalus. F., Breakbone. Synonym of Dengue. 

 F., Bubonic Typhus, typhus fever with inflammation, 

 swelling, and suppuration of the inguinal, parotid, 

 axillary, submaxillary, or mammary region. F., Bu- 

 lam, yellow fever. F., Cavite, an acute contagious 

 disease confined almost exclusively to Cavite naval 

 station in the Philippines. It is marked by sudden on- 

 set, high temperature, severe muscular pain, and ex- 

 tremely tender and painful eyeballs, the incubation- 

 period varying from 2 days to 2 weeks. F., Charcot's, 

 a septic fever occurring in cases of jaundice due to im- 

 pacted gallstones. F., Chinese Catarrhal, influenza. 

 F., Coprostasic.that caused by constipation. German, 

 Kothfieber. F., Cyprus. Synonym of F., Mediter- 

 ranean. F., Danube. See under Danube (Illus. 

 Diet. ). F., Fatigue, that following excessive mus- 

 cular exercise. F., Flock, a train of symptoms de- 

 veloped in operators in flock mills by the inhalation of 

 dust ; it resembles shoddy fever. F., Fourteen-day. 

 Synonym of Typhus. F., Fracture, fever due to 

 fracture of a bone. F., Gaspard's Putrid, 

 putrefaction of the intestinal contents. F., Gas- 

 tric Remittent. Formerly used as a synonym 

 of Mediterranean fever. F., Glandular. See 

 F., Pfeiffer's Glandular. F., Gnat, malaria. 

 F., Grain-gaugers', atrain of symptoms affecting those 

 who measured the foreign grain in the docks of Mar- 

 seilles ; it was regarded as due to the inhalation of fine 

 dust in the grain. F., Haitien, an endemic form of 

 yellow fever modified by race and acclimatization in 

 Haiti. F., Hematuric Bilious, blackwater fever. 

 F., Hemoglobinuric. See F., Blackwater (Illus. 

 Diet.). F., Hill, the pernicious malarial fever of the 

 hill regions of India. F., Homotonic, simple contin- 



ued fever. F., Inanition, fev^r sometimes observed 

 in infants during the first 3 days of life, due apparently 

 to lack of nourishment. F., Iri.-h. Synonym of Ty- 

 fhus; also of Relapsing fever. F., Jaccoud's Dis- 

 sociated, fever with irregularity and slowness of the 

 pulse in tuberculous meningitis of adults. F., Lit- 

 toral, malarial fever in coast regions. F., Local, one 

 due to a local inflammation. F., Manila, a special 

 type of pernicious fever occurring in the hot months 

 ( April and May) in Manila and sometimes becoming 

 epidemic. F., Mediterranean. (See Illus. Diet.) 

 It is due to Micrococcus melitensis, Bruce. F., Mela- 

 nuric ( Remittent », blackwater fever. F., Meta- 

 bolic, a form of fever common in children during the 

 summer, due to increased metabolism and increased 

 tissue-waste clogging the system owing to inability of 

 the excretory organs to dispose of the waste rapidly 

 enough. Syn., Bilious attack; Bilious cold. F., 

 New. (See Illus. Diet.) 2. The smallpox. F., Oroya. 

 See Verruga (Illus. Diet.). F., Paratyphoid, a con- 

 dition clinically identical with typhoid fever, but due 

 to a bacillus differing from B. typhosus and B. coli com- 

 munis. F., Peach. See under Peach (Illus. Diet.). 

 F., Pfeiffer's Glandular, an acute infectious fever, 

 characterized by inflammatory swelling of the lymph- 

 glands, anemia, and prostration. Syn., Acute cerzical 

 lymphadenitis. F., Purulent, the pyrexia attending 

 suppuration. F., Roman, a malignant malarial fever 

 occurring in the Roman Campagna. F.-root. See 

 Triosteum perfolialum, L. (Illus. Dict»). F., Septan 

 (Intermittent). See Septan (Illus. Diet.). F., 

 Sextan (Intermittent). See Sextan (Illus. Diet.). 

 F., Silesian (of 1847), relapsing fever. F., Singul- 

 tous, fever attended with hiccough. Syn., Lyngodes ; 

 Lyngycdes. F., Southern. Synonym of Texas fever. 

 P., Spotted. 1. Synonym of Typhus. 2. The local 

 name among the Eastern foothills of the Bitter Root 

 Mountains for an endemic disease characterized by 

 initial chill, constipation, fever, rapid pulse, enlarged 

 spleen, muscular soreness, severe pain in head and 

 back, and an eruption of macular spots, varying from 

 bright-red to purple or brownish-red in color. It is 

 due apparently to a hematazoon to which the name 

 Pyroplashia hominis has been given. A tick, Derma- 

 centor reticulatus, is believed to be the chief agent in 

 spreading the disease. Syn., Blue disease; Black 

 fever (2); Tick fe-ver. F., Surgical. See /'., Trau- 

 matic (l\\\xs. Diet.). F., Sweating. 1. Intermittent 

 fever in which the sweating stage of the paroxysms is 

 very pronounced. 2. See/'., Miliary (l\\us. Diet.). F., 

 Tertian (Intermittent). See Tertian (Illus. Diet.). 

 F., Texas. See Texas Fever (Illus. Diet.). It is 

 caused by the parasite Pyrosoma bigeminum, Theobald 

 Smith, 1889, which invades the red blood-corpuscle 

 and is transmitted by the cattle tick Boophilus bozis 

 (Riley), Curtice. Syn., Acclimating or Acclimation 

 fever ; Southern fever ; Texas cattle fever ; Tick fever ; 

 Spanish fever ; Red water ; Blacktoater ; Hematuria ; 

 Murrain ; Dry murrain ; Bloody murrain ; Yelloiv 

 murrain ; Hollmu horn ; Hollow-tail ; Bovine mala- 

 ria. F., Thermic. Synonym of Heatstroke. F., 

 Third-day (Intermittent). See Tertian (Illus. 

 Diet.). F.,Tick. I. Texas fever. 2. Spotted fever (2). 

 F., Tonic. See F., Sthetiic (Illus. Diet. ). F., Triple 

 Quartan Intermittent, quartan intermittent fever in 

 which there is daily repetition of the paroxysms or 

 in which, besides the regular attack, there is a mild 

 one on the intervening days. F., Triple Quotidian 

 (Intermitttent), an intermittent fever marked by 

 three paroxysms every day. F., Triple Tertian 

 (Intermittent), an intermittent fever characterized 

 by two paroxysms occurring on alternate days and one 



