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Credit: On fever, as connected with inflammation : an exercise. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![excessive excitement necessarily reach, before it fall below, the mean state ? And why does it not rest here ? Why is not health restored at that moment ? And why does it not continue, when once restored ?—Typhus does not usually go on long without putrid symptoms, though there are species of typhus, in which such change takes place only at a late period. The ten- dency to it is known from various circum- stances, observable in the patient, as also from speedy putrefaction after death. We cannot, with confidence, set about to fulfil either of our indications, least of all ven- ture upon evacuations, except at the beginning of the disease. The distinction between cases, in which vensesection is serviceable and the contrary, must sometimes betaken from the in- ternal state of the patient, (and this is com- monly, but not always, determined by the stage of the complaint;) sometimes from a difference in the species of typhus. As long as we have a right to presume that the tone of the vessels is not debilitated, a proportional contraction will succeed loss of blood, and prepare the way for the restoration of the brain's functions. Besides these general presumptions, the individual case is to be studied, and the sio-ns attended to which concur to render blood-lettins: adviseable or otherwise. [The author enumerates these.] Whence is it, he asks, that bleeding has so D often](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439023_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
