HEA T. 
cold. Indeed,- the ieuliaion was fo much =xcitots that it 
did not fubfide for tw ordyte re- 
eat to cold is 
fot fo hurtful as might 
circulation is fo excited, as not to be readily overcome by the cold.” 
This is correétly true. Hence we have already deprecated 
that popular, but moit erroneous amine of Sau, : coo. 
before leaving a hot and crowded room 4 we 
depart while “ the external tela as is tell BAL Akg | wie 
w until we a e, no ill confequences can enfue. 
ed fenfe of slaychs in cae cafes, is the index of danger ; 
and where that is prevented, we. believe no hazard can be 
incurred. Dr. Currie has juftly remarked, that cold is per- 
nicious, not becaufe we are hot, but becaule we are cooling, 
after having been hot. See Coup. 
orbid Heat.—By morbid heat, we mean that aug- 
inentation of the natural heat of the body, which is an effect, 
he fymptoms, of thofe various and important 
ifeates which une been thence denominated febrile and ia- 
flammatory ; the former iis pam. rom febris, ferveo, to. 
be hot,—the latter from lame. (See FEVER. 
i pie ge: conititutes one of the 
— 
it 
-cireulation of the blood, and its reciprocal influence upon 
n of the 
efs and passer pullation, is 
invariably conjoined with increafe eat ;—collap 
enefs of ee with diminifhed temperature 
Ciprocally, the application of external heat ancreales cee 
of the blood-veifels, and the diftention of vafcular 
Parts mith epee the abitraction of heat (or what is com- 
: , becom 
° cacy in modifying other functions 
an ving body, which are connected. vith the ftate of t 
Matte in a ftate of health, there is a pretty regular balance 
the generation of heat, and its abftraction from the 
SS earl iat as the fecretions. 0 
during a ee story 
. treated from the begi 
by : : 
veffels. In fuch a ftate, then, the augmented heat contri- 
butes to keep up the inflammatory coniftriGtion of the veffels ; 
the two conditions mutually fupport each other ; and what- 
ever aids the pagar of heat, neceflarily augments the in- 
flammatory, or febrile a&tion of the blood- vellels,.in other 
ols aggravates the febrile difeafe. 
t us compare, then, the practice of the harnent patho- 
toailta its oe of Galen, who upheld his doctrines for 
thirteen centuries, with that of the m 
Geen is dieing and} irritating to the beire the tongue 
is loade e flomach and alimentary canal are completely 
deranged, % thir nt; and, after a few days, 
ae 
s 
asi -Pox, fs oe afford..a ftriking arene of 
bag tase epastion of external heat in 7 lla 
difeates of this : for, the eruptions on the fkin 
- multiplied at a ab merely by exciting heat in the. 
fai 
© 
is 
a age crop of pare never ‘failed to appear. 
he other hand, when the regulation of the morbid 
ip is accomplifhed, according to the principles which have 
been eftablifhed by the experiments of Dr. Currie and others, 
ai eg difeafes st a much milder t 
ng a dangerous fymptoms are warde 
We a, ftood o mi 8 a baie in {earlet 
ocefs of reducin cold-wafhing ‘was going on 
have had the Cisse 4 the courf hing a een : 
3 
€ moi » and the 
has ao rei oved ; the ddliciran has dif. 
ared, and the head-ache ane greslyoc ed al a the ‘wasted 
gg and anxious ” Sisipi gees fe. Ne 
c ae eee 
ex 
geen reftleffnefs been Someday mn Di a = dipote 
tion to a ‘anges in addition to 
heat, pperilad ve coo ch eaters 
drinks,. diluent and aicrinaha ines, and vegetable nutri. 
ment ; and when the patient is S luerareies by heh cool air, 
the hale character of the fever i is often chan 
ap 
ie 
calm 
teeealeay te fase 
adopted 
