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Credit: On fever, as connected with inflammation : an exercise. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![From the foregoing train of reasoning, tlie division of typhus into idiopathic and sympatUic necessarily results; though as the author says, to illustrate the synipathic varieties, we may di- vide typhus into cephalic or brain,—gastjic or stomach,—splanchnic or bcnvel, typhus. I do not however see why, upon this ])rinciple, he does not add the pulmonic (pneumonia typhodes) and others. His three species he subdivides into subspecies and varieties; premising that this further division appears useful, because, in some cases, the remote cause, by continuance of its operation, may influence the disease; and, in others, that cause seems to give a peculiar cha- racter to the irritation or inflammation, and ought therefore to modify the treatment. Un- der the ENCEPHALIC species, he places, 1, the psychic, that proceeding from mental operations; and this will be (a) entonic, as from intensity of of study or (h) pathetic from passion. 2. agrypnic, from too long watching. 3. Or- gastic, arising out of a general inflammatory diathesis, ^.metastatic. 5. apoplectic, (persons seized by apoplexy sometimes die of a fever with the character of typhus; no wonder since apoplexy, the preceding disease, violently af- fects the brain ! The affinity of the two disorders appears likewise from persons dying suddenly, or apoplectic, of tlie contagion of the i)lague) traumatic, from external violence. 7. toxic, from](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439023_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
