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terizes the advanced stages of all severe and continued 

 fevers — the typhoid condition. This is not to be con- 

 founded with the specific typhoid fever, in which a special 

 fever-germ expends itself, mainly on the bowels, and that 

 runs through a regular course. The typhoid condition is 

 that state in which an animal system, already greatly weak- 

 ened by a severe disease, and perhaps further prostrated by 

 a specific disease-poison, is subjected to a species of poison- 

 ing by the retained chemical products of the waste of the 

 tissues. 



Types of Fever. These are as characteristic as the types 

 of inflammation, and of the same kind. The strong type of 

 fever, which attends on an acute inflammation in an other- 

 wise healthy, vigorous system, is spoken of as a high or in- 

 fl(tmmatory fever. The weaJc type, which occurs in a 

 broken-down or debilitated system, or in connection with the 

 action of a speciflc disease germ, or with the saturation of 

 the system by waste chemical products, is known as low, 

 typhoid (better typhous), or adynamic fever. That form 

 which persists in the utterly debilitated system, where the 

 power of assimilation is practically lost, is known as hectic. 



TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION AND FEVEE. 



Treatment will be guided very largely by the type of the 

 attendant fever. If that is of a high type, with a hard, full, 

 rapid pulse, bright red mucous membranes, a clear eye, and 

 well-sustained strength in a strong, vigorous animal, what is 

 known as antiphlogistic (depleting, depressing) treatment is 

 admissible at the outset. But in many cases with a low 

 type of fever, a weak, rapid pulse, pallid, yellow, or livid 

 mucous membranes, a coated tongue, a dull or sunken eye, 

 much depression and prostration, swaying on the limbs in 

 walking, pendent head, ears, eyelids, and lips, and varying 

 and irregular temperature of the limbs, etc., such measures 

 are forbidden from the first, and tonics and stimulants are 



