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![useful, never destructive. The success ascribed to his mea-» sures, his calmness and the good order he introduced, seem first to have dissipated a little of the nearly universal dismay among the professional and unprofessional. To the name of Deveze, I cannot refrain from joining that of his associate, Mr.: Stephen Gerard, an opulent American merchant, the equal, of the good bishop of Marseilles, and of our Howard* whom no form of danger could appal and no form uf misery disgust. Instead of flying to the security of his country seat he became the self-devoted slave of humanity. Scarcely would he allow himself time to take necessary support. He flew from one house of indigence and distress to another, dis- tributing money and advice. In the hospital, he not only at- tended to the management, but traversed the wards j went from bed to bed, administering services and consolation j and it is said by an eye-witness, that no parent could have shewn more tenderness to his-own children. It cannot be indifferent to any reader to hear that Gerard moved unhurt amid the pe- stilence. P. I have asserted, without adding any authority, that after dropsy Signs of inflammation or redness from dilated vessels would be found in the brain, In that very common sort of dropsy, which requires bleeding, a little knowledge of pathology will persuade any one that the fact cannot well be otherwise J and as some have named it hydrops plethoricus, soDr, Ploucquet may, if he pleases, reconcile his system to the hcX hy ca]\\ng )t Jujdrops (ypliodes. Stoll, to give one exam- ple in acquittal of my faith, has cases of fatal dropy, where the vessels of the brain were found turgid. ('I. c. iil. 303 et s.) In this disorder, when it exhibits the pulsus plcni, duri, vi- Irant'issimi, appearances of inflammation are discovered in seats as various as in the disorders so often mentioned. P.2l,3,Dr.Currie has taught us that the cold aftusion,employ- ed in the hot stage ofintermittents cuts the paroxysm short. It i;etmns however, at the usual time. Most of us may have ascertained the truth of this lesson. But in bad cases of ague, the protracted application of cold will probably turn out as much](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439023_0266.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
