gibbon, Xbla day reoeived by
..i OGDEN, BR0WNELL4C0
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Fever and Ague,
from which mankind suffer arret a large part of
the fflobe, is the consequence of a diseased action
(in the system, induccd by the poisonous miasm of
•^vegetable decay. Tliis exhalation is evolved by
the action of solar heat on wet aoil, and riaea with
Ithe watery vapor from it. While the aun is below
ihe horiaon this vapor lingers near the earth's sur
face, ant! the virus is taken with it through the
luninto the blood. There it acts a* an irritating
poison on the internal viscera and excreting organs
of the body. The liver becomes torpid and foil* to
accrete not only this virus, but also the bile from
tlio blood. Both the vims and the bile accumulate
in the circulation, and produce violent constitu
tional disorder. 'Hie spleen, the kidneys, and the
pt.nnach sympathize with the liver, and become
di,ordered ulao. Finally, the instinct of our or
u-iuiati, ax if in an attempt to expel the noxious
infusion, concentrates the whole blood of the body
in the internal excretories to force them to cast it
out. The blood leaves tbe surface, and rushes to
the central organs with congestive violence. This
is Iftpfum. But in this effort it fails. Then the
Fr.viiLt follows, in which the blnod leaves the cen
tral organs and rushes to the surfaco, as if in
another effort to expel the irritating poison through
that other gnat excretory the skin. In this
al ,o it fails, nod the system abandons the attempt
exhausted, and "nuts
for
the recovery of atrength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
are the fits or paroxysms of FEVF.U A
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act limntation.
