REM 



Icm is nearly deftroycd, powerful catliartics will be attended 

 with the moil deleterious coiileqiiences : glyllcrii arc parti- 

 cularly ferviccable at this time. As the difeafe advances, 

 the fecretioMs are at times voided involuntarily : in a few I 

 have obfervcd a retention of urine, and in thefe lad cafes 

 the cathi'ter fliould be ufed ; but as a general fymptom, 

 there is far oftener a deficiency in the fecretion of that fluid. 

 Frequently in this rtate, the ftomach rejefts every thing. 

 We may now fafely- indulge the patient moderatdy with any 

 tiling to which his fancy leads him. Bottled porter, wine, 

 and brandy and water, have been found beneficial. But no 

 remedy can be relied on with any degree of certainty : 

 whatever calms the irritability of the ilomach, and mode- 

 rately fupports the excitability of the fyllem, is ufeful. A 

 few fpoonfuls of arrow-root or fago, with wine and fpice, 

 given occafionally, will often be retained by the patient, 

 and greatly at this period affill the cure." Burnett, loc. 

 cit. p. 29. 



During i\\o Jlate of convalefcence at every period, whether 

 from a complete remifiion being procured early, or from a 

 gradual ccfTation of the difeafe, extreme caution is neceffary 

 iii regard to preventing repletion : in the former cafe, it is 

 apt to induce a relapfe ; and in the latter, it will retard the 

 cure. During the whole progrefs of recovery, attention 

 fhould be paid to the regularity of the bowels. Some light 

 tonic, as an infufion of quaflia, gentian, or cinchona, with 

 an aromatic or fulphuric acid, may be adminiftered. When 

 the yellow fuffufion of the flcin has been great, a protrafted 

 convalefcence is commonly the confequence ; and is often at- 

 tended with irregular affeftions of the bowels, and fjjmp- 

 toms of indigellion. In thefe cafes, fmall dofes of the mer- 

 curial pill, with an occafional gentle purgative of caltor oil 

 or rhubarb, are very beneficial. It is almoft exclufively, 

 indeed, in thefe protrafted cafes, where a morbid affeftion 

 of the liver, brain, or fome other vifcera, has been the refult 

 of the uninterrupted violence of the firft ftage of the fever, 

 and efpecially when there is reafon to fuppoie that affufion 

 had taken place within the cranium, that mercury, in fmall 

 dofes, is of any aftual utility. Small defes of calomel, or 

 of the pilula hydrargyri, fhould be adminiftered until fome 

 fenfible, but flight, effeft be prsduced on the falivary fyf- 

 tem ; after which the difeafe often ceafes of itfelf, or is 

 readily removed by the ufe of the Peruvian bark. See Bur- 

 nctt on the Bilious Remittent in the Mediterranean ; Ban- 

 croft on the Yellow Fever ; and Irvine on the Difeafes ot 

 Sicily. See alfo Fever, Tellow, and Miasma. 



Remittent Fe-ver of Children, the fins infantum re- 

 mittens of Dr. Butter, which is a very common affeftion of 

 children, when the abdominal organs are deranged, has al- 

 ready been defcribed at length, under the head of Infants, 

 ^ 5. Febrile Difeafes of ; which fee. 



REMITTER, in Lam. Where a man has two titles 

 to land, and is feifed by the latter ; and, that proving de- 

 feftive, he is remitted or reitored to the former more ancient 

 title ; this is called a remitter, from the Latin, remiitere, to 

 fend bad. 



If land defcend to him that had right to it before, he fhall 

 he remitted to his better title, if he pleafe. I Inft. 347. b. 

 Litt. § 659. 



Remitter is clafi'ed (with retainer) by judge Blackllone, 

 among thofe remedies for private wrongs, which are effefted 

 by the mere operation of law, and is thus defcribed : re- 

 mitter is where he, who hath the true property or jus pro- 

 brietatis in lands, but is out of pofleflion thereof, and hath 

 no right to enter, without recovering polTeflion in an adion, 

 ■ hath afterwards the freehold call upon him by fome fuble- 

 qiient, and of courfe defcftive title : in this cafe, he is re- 



REM 



milted, or font back, by operation of law, to hn ancient 

 and more certain title. (Litt. $ 659.) The right of 

 entry, which he hath gained by a bad title, fhall be ipfo fnfio 

 annexed to his own inherent good one ; and his Qetealibl' 

 eitate fhall be utterly defeated and annulled, by the inftan- 

 taneous aft of law, without his participation or confcnt. 

 (Co. Litt. 358. Cro. Jac. 489.) As if A didcifes B, 

 that is, turns him out of pofleflion, and dies leaving a fon 

 C ; hereby the eitate defcends to C, the fon of A, and B 

 is barred from entering thereon till he proves his right in an 

 aftion : now, if afterwards C, the heir of the dili'eitor, 

 makes a leafe for life to D, with remainder to B the diflcifre 

 for life, and D dies ; hereby the remainder accrues to B, 

 the difleifee ; who thus gaining a new freehold by virtue of 

 the remainder, which is a bad title, is by aft of law remitted, 

 or in of his former and furer eftate. (Finch. L. 194. 

 Litt. J 683.) For he hath hereby gained a iiew right of 

 pofiefTion, to which the law immediately annexes his ancient 

 right of property. 



If the fubfequent eftate, or right of pofTefTion, be gained 

 by a man's own aft or confent, as by immediate pur.chafe 

 being of full age, he fhall not be remitted. For the taking 

 fuch fubfequent eftate was his own folly, and ftiall be looked 

 upon as a waiver of his prior right. (Co. Litt. 348. 350- .' 

 Therefore it is to be obfervcd, that to every remitter there 

 are regularly thefe incidents ; an ancient right, and a new 

 defeafible eftate of freehold, uniting in one and the fame 

 perfon ; which defeafible eftate muft be cafi upon the tenant, 

 not gained by his own aft or folly. The reafon given by 

 Littleton (J 661.), why this remedy, which operates filcntly 

 and by the mere aft of'law, was allowed, is fomewhat fimikr 

 to that given under the article Retainer ; becaufe other- 

 wife he who hath right would be deprived of all remedy. 

 For as he himfelf is the perfon in pofttlTion of the freehold, 

 there is no other perfon againft whom he can bring an ac- 

 tion, to eftablifii his prior right. And for this caufe_ the 

 law doth adjudge him in by remitter ; that is, in fuch P%'"^ 

 as if he had lawfully recovered the fame land by fuit. P(>r, 

 as lord Bacon obferves (Elem. c. 9.), the benignity of the 

 law is fuch, as when, to preferve the principles and grounds 

 of law, it depriveth a man of his remedy without his own 

 fault, it will rather put him in a better degree and condition 

 than in a worfe. Nam quod remedio dflituitur, ipfa re valet ; 

 fi culpa abfit. But there (hall be no remitter to a riglit, for 

 which the party has no remedy by aftion (Co. IJtt. 349.): 

 as if the ifliie in tail be barred by the fine or warranty of his 

 anceitor, and the freehold is afterwards cait upon him ; he 

 fhall not be remitted to his eftate tail. (Moor. 1 15. i Ann. 

 286.) For the operation of the remitter is exactly the 

 fame, after the union of the two rights, as that of a real 

 aftion would have been before it. As, therefore, the iffue 

 in tail could not by any aftion have recovered his ancient 

 eftate, he ftiall not recover it by remitter. 



The determination of the law, according to the doftrine 

 of remitter above ftated, might fecm fuperfluous to an hafty 

 obferver ; who perhaps would imagine, that fince the tenant 

 hath now both the right and alfo the pofleflion, it little '^xg- 

 niiies by what means fuch poffeflion fhall be faid to be 

 gained. But the wifdom of our ancient l.iw deterraincd 

 nothing in vain. As the tenant's poffefrion was gained by 

 a defeftive title, it was liable to be overturned by fhewing 

 that defedt in a writ of entry ; and then he muft have been 

 driven to his writ of right, to recover hisjuft inheritance: 

 which would have been doubly hard, becaufe, during the 

 time he was himfelf tenant, he could not eftablilb his prior 

 title by any pofleflbry aftion. The law, therefore, remits 

 him to his prior title, or puts him in the fame condition as 



