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■of an intermittent fever; notwithftanding, 
there are fome inftances of it, and I will 
mention one. Mr, Hamms, who lived in 
Bull and Mouth-ftreet, had a lancinating 
pain in the right hypochondrium, with¬ 
out fever, cough, or any other mark of 
difeafe. The urine only was very high- 
coloured, which induced Morton to be¬ 
lieve that the liver was affedted; after¬ 
wards a variety offymptoms was presented, 
as difficulty of breathing, fever, diarrhoea, 
&c. The patient had already taken many 
medicines without effedt, when the phy- 
lician difcovered he was miftaken in his 
idea of the difeafe, which was of the 
intermittent kind. “ Hoc fadto,” fays 
Morton, with a candour which does him 
honour, “ dodte eft argute delirans quippe 
falfa principia ponens et apparentibus 
fymptomatis deceptus, ajgram febre, vigi- 
liis, deliriis, ac dolore pene confedtam ad 
orci fauces duxeram, donee febre quotidi- 
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