INFLUENCE IN THE FEVERS OF INDIA, &C. 9 



in their form, 1 have not attempted to represent 

 them by any diagram. 



Of the Durations and Crises of Fevers of an Imper- 

 fect Type. 



For the same reason I have not attempted to re- 

 duce, to a synopsis or table, the durations and cri- 

 ses of imperfect types; and because I am perfectly 

 satisfied that the sar.sC principles are equally ap- 

 plicable to explain the whole. 



III. The preceding Theory e.vtended to the whole 

 Class of Febrile Diseases. 



In prosecuting this analysis, we have obtained 

 the knowledge of three very important principles 

 in the pathology of fevers. 



1^2^. That the paroxysms of fevers are produced 

 by the action of sol-lunar influence. 



Sldly. That there is, however, a certain state of 

 the human constitution, denominated the paroxyS' 

 rnal disposition, required to concur v/ith the exa- 

 cerbations of sol-lunar -power in exciting and re- 

 iterating paroxysms, in such a manner as to form 

 fevers. 



Zdli). That in the course of tlie disease there 

 takes place iii the constitution a certain state, de- 

 nominated the critical disposition, which tending 

 grdiluiuW to maturity, at length concurs with certain 

 remissions of sol-lunar povrer in producing a crisis; 

 by winch salutary change the tendency to pa- 

 rovysm is diminished or removed, so as to bring 

 fevers to an end after certain intervals of time. 



