Fever and Ague,
from wfiich mankind suffer over a iar^e part of
the globe, is the consequence of a diaeaacd action
in the «tystem, induced by the poisonous miasm of
vegetable deay. This exhalation ie evolved by
tbe fn tion of solar heat on w soil, and m«s with
the watery vapor from it. While the sun is below
the homois than vapor lingers near the earth's sur
face, and tin viru* ia taken with it through the
liuug^ into the blood. There it .uta a« an irritating
poison ou the internal viscera and cicretiug or^aus
of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrete i«st only this virus, but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virua and the bile accumulate
iu the circulation, and produce violent constitu
tional disorder. The spleen, the kidneys, and tbe
BtouiacU «ywpathi*o with the liver, aud become
duordeied al»o. Finally, the instinct of our or
ganism, aa if in an attempt to e\nel the noxious
infitwoii, concentrates the whole blood of the body
in tiiu iuternal excrctorita to force them to cast u
out. The Wood leaves the surface, and rushes to
thsi central organs with rongestive violence. Tliis
is t!w* Chxm.. Hut iu this effort it fails. Tlien the
ltavxu fuiiows, ui which tlie Uood leaves the cen
tral o.gans and rushes to the surface, as if in
another eiTort to exiel the irritating poison through
tit at other great excretory the akin. In thia
aUu it fui's and the system abandons the attempt
exh'ULited. and waits for the recovery of strength
to rcne.it the hopeless effort another day. These
aw the fiu or paroxysms of FEVKR avo Aora.
Such constitutional disorder wil! of coursc under
mine the health if it not removed.
