[p. 113] is the quartan, for it is not only such from
itself, but it also carries off other great diseases. In what is called
the semi-tertian, other acute diseases are apt to occur, and it is
the most fatal of all others, and moreover phthisical persons, and
those laboring under other protracted diseases, are apt to be attacked
by it. The nocturnal fever is not very fatal, but protracted; the
diurnal is still more protracted, and in some cases passes into phthisis.
The septan is protracted, but not fatal; the nonan more protracted,
and not fatal. The true tertian comes quickly to a crisis, and is
not fatal; but the quintan is the worst of all, for it proves fatal
when it precedes an attack of phthisis, and when it supervenes on
persons who are already consumptive. There are peculiar modes, and
constitutions, and paroxysms, in every one of these fevers; for example,-
the continual, in some cases at the very commencement, grows, as it
were, and attains its full strength, and rises to its most dangerous
pitch, but is diminished about and at the crisis; in others it begins
gentle and suppressed, but gains ground and is exacerbated every day,
and bursts forth with all its heat about and at the crisis; while
in others, again, it commences mildly, increases, and is exacerbated
until it reaches its acme, and then remits until at and about the
crisis. These varieties occur in every fever, and in every disease.
From these observations one must regulate the regimen accordingly.
There are many other important symptoms allied to these, part of which
have been already noticed, and part will be described afterwards,
from a consideration of which one may judge, and decided in each case,
whether the disease be acute, and whether it will end in death
or recovery; or whether it will be protracted, and will end in death
or recovery; and in what cases food is to be given, and in what not;
and when and to what amount, and what particular kind of food is to
be administered.
PART 10
Those diseases which have their paroxysms on even days have their
crises on even days; and those which have their paroxysms on uneven
days have their crises on uneven days. The first period of those which
have the crisis on even days, is the 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 14th, 20th,
30th, 40th, 60th, 80th, 100th; and the first period of those which
have their crises on uneven
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