V B V ihllunmnti.ry and putrid fc.Ts :
- ars, and plums bein
inferior to the li uit l> - i i, mci ii .i, in, u kind of mellow and saccharine pears are lly proper. The jqice ol le- ., mixed with , also uiTi.vU .: i loling an ! b erdge, In short, nil rales whi< h we have - ..i of CuBON le L Diseases, vol. i. p. 522, ami toll. are, with a tew modifications, also applicable in febrile complaints, ially after t!;c crisis lias taken place, w "• Q 'in- p:iiu .it may be dered in a state of coava- lescence. Although fevers arc di- vided, by authors, into inflamma- tory, putrid, bilious, pituitous, hectic, and consumptive, eruptive, sporadic, epidemic, infe&ious, en- demic, topical, vernal, autumnal, complicated, original and sympto- matic, regular and irregular •, yet (the following division is better cal- culated to answer practical pur- pose -. I. Intermitients, or Auucs, which see. II. inflammatory fevers, or those which are attended with an in- flammation of any internal part of the body 5 such as the breast, lungs, throat, 6cc. or of some extendi part, for instance, the Rose. For a description of the former kind, bee Pleurisy, and Inflamma- tion . — Sometimes, however, there is no locai affection discoverable, though all the symptoms of an in- flammatory c ispositioa of the blood are evident, in v. inch aae< die dis- is termed a simple inrlamma- iever. III. Putrid fevers, which are ac- companied with certain symptoms of putridity, either in the first pas- . or in t!ie mass of the blood, or in both. — These malignant fe- F E V [2*7 vers are highly infectious and .!.-.- ■tru&ive •, though they have lately ' resh vk > i , diluted
- ; a (heap and easy re-
med) , oi which we propose to ,m, under its alpha- betical head. IV. Bilious fetters, are thus de-
- i an undue accretion
oi the Biljb, to which article we refer : — no time should be lost here in applying tor proper advice, as they frequently- terminate in putrid fevers, if mismanaged in the be- ginning; — Sec also Yellow i'c-
er. r . Nervous fe^er^i m which the
whole nervous system is originally affect* d: these maladies are c liicrly of modern origin, and have fre- quently been relieved by the proper use of the tepid bath. We. cannot in this place expatiate upon their treatment, as they appear in a thousand different forms, and re- quire the assistance of professional men, more than any other class of di;v :!SCS. VI . Hectic fevers are those which emaciate the body, and arise in consequence of the corruption of aii;, particular organ, or viscus in the system; for instance, obstruction, suppuration, or ulceration of the breast, lungs, liver, &c. See ITec» tic. — These fevers, however, are. to be distinguished from the slow, consumptive, and cachectic febrile affections, which are followed by a gt neral decline of the constitution, though there appears to be no or- ganic injury, oi local disorder, in any part of the system. MI. Eruptive fivers are termed those, in which the skin or surface of the body discovers an -eruption w hjeh consists either in vesicles, and pustules, such as the small- pox, scarlet fever, &c. or in spots some-
