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who expressed a despair of recovery. This fear did 

 not seem to arise from any natural timidity, but 

 seemed rather a symptom of the disease. In the 

 last stage, there was as much resignation to his fate 

 as there was apprehension at the beginning. 



Not a few of those attacked by this fever, if 

 proper remedies to subdue it had been employed, 

 recovered from its first stage. They exhibited sure 

 symptoms of improvement within the first twenty- 

 four, or, at farthest, thirty-six hours, from its first 



Very many recovered from the second stage — that 

 is to say, before black-vomiting commenced; but 

 only a few recovered from the last stage. 



In the former cases, the stomach gradually became 

 retentive ; the eyes and skin became of a more vivid 

 yellow. They had refreshing sleep, but continued 

 extremely weak and languid for a long time. The 

 oozing of blood from the fauces and gums also 

 continued for some days. 



Pain of the back, early stretching round to the 

 navel, soreness in the throat and oesophagus, heat 

 and acrid sensation in the stomach, urgent thirst, 

 hunger, want of power, resembling paralysis of the 

 limbs, violent delirium, despondency, enlargement 

 of the blood-vessels, and a red-yellow colour of the 



