TYER'S AGUE
Fever and Ague
from wlikh mankind suffer over it large part of
the globe, is the consequence of a WirasM action
in the system, induced by the poisdno’hs miasm
of vegetable decay. This e*halatidn U etolv P
by the action of solar heat on wet soil, ahd riJ,
with the watery vapor from it. While the Min j,
below the horizon this vapor lingers Uedf th H
earth’s surface, and the virus is taken with
through the lungs into the blood. There it acts
as an irritating poison on the internal
and excreting organs of the body. The liver t/
comes torpid an<l fails to secrete Only thiC
virus, but also the bile from the blood.
the virus and the bile accumulate in the circulg.-
tlon, and produce violent constitutional disorder
The sptevti, the kidneys, an 1 the stomach svm‘
pathize with the liver, &»d become disordered
also. Finally, the ’nstinct of our organism,
if in an attempt to expei the noxious infagion
concentiates the whole blood iff the body in tinj
internal excretories to force them to cast it out
The blood leaves the surface, and rushes to the
central organs with congestive violence. This n
the Chill. But in this effort it falls, 'fhert f| ie
Fever follows, In which tho blood leaves the
central organs and rnshes ’ a the surface, as if
in another effort to expel the irritating poison
through the other great excretory the skin,
this also it fails, and the system al>a»”’ons the at
tempt exhausted, and waits for the recovery of
strength to repeat die hopeless effort another day
These are the dts or paroxysms of
Ague. Such constitutional disorder will O f
course undermine the health if it is not lemtrfed.
