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FEVER. 
Persons of different constitution suffer differ- 
ently, and attacks vary in severity in the same 
sufferer. Sometimes there is merely a great 
languor, with loss of appetite. The slightest 
effort is a burden, life is a weariness, and the 
future looks overwhelmingly black. Then there 
are short and sharp attacks, for which one seems 
at the time little the worse. In the forenoon 
you are in a burning fever ; by evening you can 
sit up ; and you enjoy immunity for the next 
fortnight or three weeks. But alas for you when 
day after day for successive weeks finds you 
delirious, reduced to such a condition of feeble- 
ness that you feel an utter hopelessness of ever 
regaining strength for the duties of life ! 
Slight attacks are preceded generally by an 
unwonted physical energy and mental exhilara- 
tion. No task seems impossible, and the busy 
brain is full of schemes. To quote Mr II. H. 
Johnston's apt words : “ This first stage of the 
fever is by no means disagreeable. One enjoys 
the same sensations as those produced by a 
sufficiency of good champagne. But all exertion 
is disagreeable ; one feels content to sit and com- 
pose chapters of novels in one's whirling brain, 
without attempting to commit the fleeting kalei- 
doscopic images to paper.” I have often felt quite 
