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termit, or that it is Intermitting. Now that, whatfb- 
ever a Fever may be, there can be no Fever but of one 
of thofe two forts is moft evident, tho' the ///? we 
fliaii have r€ipe(2: to liioft especially in our prelenl Dit 
courfe. 
Again, fincePhyficians not only difcover other Difta* 
fes, bat Fevers too, by the Pulfe, and any Body, as well 
as a Phyfician, is apt to fay my Pulfe beats very quick, 
I am in a Fever. The quicknefs of the Pulfe, in every 
common underftanding, isthefau!t of thePi^Ift; and 
the Pulfe cannot be fo but by the Faultinels of the Blood, 
either in quantity, quality or its Motion : Neither can 
it offend either in quantity or in quality, but it affefts its 
Motion ; and fince there are no ^Symptoms that appear 
in any time of a Fever, either before it, at the time, or 
after it, but what neceffarily depend on this kuky Mo- 
tion. This obfervable defeat of its Motion, is the moft 
evident, fenfible Rule of a Fever, both to Piiyficians and 
every Body elfe, and is not only a fign of, but is a Fe- 
ver it feJf. And therefore give me leave to 
Suppofe Thara Fever is an univerfally height- 
ned Circulation of the Blood, and that a Delirium, h. e. 
that unconnedled, incoherent and ridiculous way of ima- 
gination and expreffing our felves in a Fever, is entire- 
ly the effedl of this greater Motion, whole difcoverer 
is a quick Pulfe , and in the way I have explained it, 
in the 47 Page of the firft part of my Book of Sea- 
ficknefles. 
Thefe things being (iippofed , the queflion has 
quite another Face : which might be ftated this way : 
How munding ly Cant hart Jes makes our fulfe not fo^nickj 
and confequently our Blood to have a more flow and 
natural motion ; our cited Author will have this great 
effedt, with all its Circumftances to procceed from the 
pain 
