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Credit: On fever, as connected with inflammation : an exercise. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![due contraction of the vessels will not follow. Hence the circulation will be still more im- peded; and stagnation either begin or in- crease, though it might have been prevented or removed by a stronger impetus ; and hence the functions of the brain will be impaired or sus- pended. Still, however, may not the aggravation of symptoms arise from some unobserved circum- stance different from this? May it not arise from the unfavourable rapid progress of the case, independently of bleeding ? Mischief arising from the secretions being too powerfully excited, a fact which in general can- not be contested, is to be ascribed to the af- fection of the secretory organs; to too strong application of a stimulus to them; [as is shewn in the unrestrainable vomiting or flux, from ill-timed administration of emetics; see among many other authorities, the modest and in- structive Dalmas sur la fievre jau?ie, Paris, 1805]; to an irritated or inflammatory state being thus produced, in short, to the vital power being improperly expended on the actions, rather than to any diminution of fluids, as merely changing the relative quantity. The theurapeutic expedient of counter-irri- tation will the more certainly attain its end, the more susceptible the subject, and the greater the sum of remaining vital power. That no D 3 mischief](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439023_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
