INFLUENCE IN THE FEVERS OF INDIA, &C. 33 



tinned fevers,) which ceasing on the commence- 

 ment of the neaps, constitute different durations of 

 perfect types; and those will serve also to give an 

 idea of the variety that may be produced in a si- 

 milar manner in the duration of types that are im- 

 perfect ; commonly called remitting and intermit- 

 ting fevers. 



'7thly. Although single paroxysms will appear 

 from the disposal of the dots in this table to be 

 confined to the neaps, and double paroxysms to the 

 springs, it must however be understood, that this 

 is not always rigidly or invariably true ; and they 

 are represented here in this manner, only to de- 

 note their general and prevailing tendency and 

 course ; which must always be liable to certain de- 

 viations, not only from uncommon perturbations in 

 the state of sol-lunar influence itself; but also from 

 the usual and regular action of this influence hap- 

 pening to exert itself upon extraordinary degrees 

 of paroxysmal propensity. 



hthly. The daily postponing of the paroxysms 

 cannot be easily represented on a fixed or immove- 

 able diagram of this kind. But the effects which 

 it has of shiftiiig their accessions from night to 

 morning, about the middle of the neaps, is denoted 

 by shifting the single dots, that represent the par- 

 oxysms at this time, from the nocturnal to the 

 diurnal side of the line. The postponing of the 

 paroxysms is a phenomenon that has been too little 

 attended to in the history of fevers. 



EXPLANATION of TABLE IIL 



This is the second Table in Doctor Currie's 

 Medical Reports on the effects of water, &c. ar- 

 ranged agreeably to the doctrine of sol-lunar in- 

 flaence. 



Vol. VIIL D 



