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jfhort time in nervous dileafes.—But per¬ 
haps in this cafe it rather arifes from an 
increafed adtion of the lymphatics; and 
th:’s appears to be fomewhat confirmed by 
the obfervation of Morgagni, who has 
fometimes feen in the hydrophobia part of 
the body of the patient in a ftate of ema¬ 
ciation, whilft the reft retained its natural 
plumpnefs. 
A young man of my acquaintance, in 
whofe family the phthifis was hereditary, 
in confequence of a fall became ill of this 
complaint. The wafting of his body was 
fo rapid, that in the firft days of the 
complaint he loft his hair, which muft be 
confidered as very extraordinary at fo early 
a period. 
I am convinced that in the true phthifis 
the nerves have not their ordinary influ¬ 
ence in the procefs of nutrition, and that 
from hence the confumption principally 
arifes. In confirmation of this, let us re- 
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