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Fever and
FOR
Ague,
^'im which mankind s*uL-r over a large part of
the Kloiie, is the eomrquencf of n disPTU.tV! actirm
in the svMtvnH induced by tbe poisunous miasm «f
Vegetable decay. This exhalation is evoked hv
the action of solar heat on wot soil, and ri*M im
the watery vapor from it. While the aun is below
the honmn this vapor IingcrH near the earth's sur
face, and the virua is takon with throngh the
lun^s into the biood. There it acta as an irrituiing
|wi"on on the internal viscera and oxer* tint' organs
of the boiy. The liver becomes torpid and faii* to
secrete not only tius virus, but sisn tbo bile from
the blood. Bath the rim* and the bile accumulate
i i the circulation, and produce violent eonstitu
tiiwiiil disorder. The spleen, the kidnev.*, and tlie
at.iin.ich aympathixe with the liver, and become
di-i-.rdered aiao. Finally, the itn^mct of our ur
gai..,Hin, as if ui au attempt to expel the noxious
la&ision, conenitrntc* the wliole hlood of the \ndy
iu the internal excfetories to force them to csst it
out. The blood leaves the surface, and rushes to
the central organs with eonifstive violence. This
is tiMjC'ifiu.. But iu this effort it fails. Then the
l'Rvr.H follows, iu which the blood leaves the cen
tral or^an* tmd rushes to the surface, a* if in
another etbwt to expel the irritating poison through
that other great excretory—the h! in. Iu this
also it ftiibi, and the system abandons the nttrmpt
exhamted, and w uth for the recoverv of Htrenxtli
to repe.it the ho less effort another day- Ttiese
are the fit* or p.irovysnis of
Feveb
This it accomplishes by stimulating the exere
tones to expel the rfni* from the wyktein and
these organs by degrees trmnc habited to do this
thetr office of their own acord. Hen-e ari^( what
we term ri/rhimfffntimt. Time rnnv arcompii^h The
same end, but ofteu life i* not long enouich, or is
sacrificed in the attemjit, \vl,il" this At.t:t- C»"UB
does it st once, and with nsfety. 