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REPORT— 1847. 
any produelwe intercourse, that a more circumstantial investigation of tliii and me 
other occurrences of the kind which he has since heard of will be required brf(» 
a dual opinion can be formed. ^ 
Ofl /Ai? PAysiohffical Condition of the Blood in Erysipelas, ani prohoiU xmm 
otherensrs of Infammation. By Jouk Goodmak. MaHchettn. 
The antlmr having eenerully used venesecUon in crj-aipcliw (where admiswU),!* 
Jong remarked a ueculiar contrast and dissimilarity between the ouMtities ofwM 
and coaguhim m blood taken from individuals labouring under that lualsdy. 
lljis »n«antly occurring dilference has frequently induced the author lotwit 
aeparately these two conatitueuls of die blood, and he has invariablv fomid 4e 
cowilum after standing twenty-four hours, to preponderate condderobly, 
.wJJ. J.. weighed saroml years ago were, scrum <1 ouam, 
co^ in __ ounces. Ihis has been generally about the average proportiDn fbhli 
r«meated bleedings atlerwards to a smaller amount, or m 
strtmgth of the patient oml the severity of the sTmptoms, siAthe 
“Ppli'^ahons and remedial ngenU, as well as by the exhibition of drinks, gnitlud 
ouiET Hurds taken into the system, the two constituents have been g^uallv reduced to 
»i» equality in volunjo or thereabout, when the paiicnt has as certainlyrecomci 
„«««. II *li indicator oftho uccessjlv for veneKction, far 
. o taken would be more cupped and bn^y than any pr*«diti» 
fluid had already assumed those iiroportions by >.W 
th.. Mml 1 a freedom from the disease. Thu author has aho wiui»«l 
hi. T" pcricHtflitis and some other inflamnwilom, M 
alihomO. 1« \?L ‘®® t'xt.Mided much to the nature of this fluid in other mkj. 
.jj ^ ^ f . to believe that a similar condition prevails more orkniN*!! 
inflaiiimurni^v^B!!!- character; for the whole profession, waa vow, coaii?® 
' In tlu-s^ fiiB plethoric or byperaunic condition of iheajileu. 
that a iiroiifind conclusion that where it i* discovei^ 
have beoii hiiyli*iJBl»v^.*^^ coagulum is ibuiid to e-xist, venesection and diluent driflb 
08 in Clilorosla Z. where there has been a superabiindancc of serum- 
found mast successful.' absiracUous of biood hare Uea 
™S, Td "" 
On the supposed jdatayonium hetwem Consumption and Ague- 
By l)r. Groshaus. 
betlill-rn^afuT’aSd^nnl^^ progress of (he celebrated theory of anta^'^® 
ricuce in the clinfml *’”ptJon« and mentioning as the result of his petwnu eay*" 
ciSSrorjL JSIo toI816, tit among 115 paticSsbuh^i;; 
stinrtion oUhete two thirteen of consuraplion (tb* ^ 
the following obseivatious autborl-'^* 
I. In some rr.iini,: ’ IVom h»s personal experience in RoUrrdara;— 
very few iiiflammaini-J* oppearsnot to be acute; it is conneettd will 
»til7 tbero mnv be uio?e" tliough it is alway s a very dangeroos di*e*» 
may Assume a verv nr» n. °/ recovery than in other districts. In other 
I U with great intermission of symptoms. ^ , ,, 
appeatB that this favoumKl ° ca«se of these variations in the disew, b^' 
where ague u ,„oat rndcmic“’'’^^''“‘'°" ^ principally in thoM ®*in* 
frame of £2y 3chTsVm^-*'”i^*'^” *“ characterized by lli^ 
tnoy appear imuttprid,'fl the name ot habitua phtliisicus, and M 
occasion In aupnnae that common symptoms, so this t"“) £ i, 
of phytloS '? "1°*’® than it really appearstobf; 
oscKrttoified that cniiKut ^ 1**” duriiig^ life and post-mortem examinations, b 
which wo alJode. » wost coinnion disease even in those coiwWM » 
ti there is reason to suppose that consumption, though always reiyco»“®’ 
