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fo effential to the definition of fever. al to be

pathognornonic fymptom of it. But experience it
againil this notion: perhaps the prefent cafe is
proof of the contrary; however this be, there have
not been wanting Milano., in which, towards the
end of a fever, the pilule has grown quiet, without
the abatement of any other framtom, and thc pa-
tient hath generally lain comatofe, and with the ap-
pearance of onc, who hath taken a large quantity of
opium. Galen, in the third book of the Prefages of
the Polk, mentions this fruptom, and pronounces
it to be almoll a fatal tignr and the fame thing hath
happened in more inflaoces than one, which have
come to my knowlege. May not then the above-
recited cafe lead to this ufeful inquiry. Whether in
fevers of evesy kind, when the polfe is quiet, the
bark is not proper to be given, and likely to prove a
remedyt In this cafe it proved abfolutely loch : and
that it is at leaft a fafe medicine in all fah cafes, in
which any pratlitioner of experience or judgment
would ever think of giving it, is now certainly known.
For my own part, I can fafely declare, that in near
ten years experience of it in Guy's-liolpital, during
which time I find I have given it, on different coca-
fions, to above five hundred patients in that hook
only, I never, from the molt accurate obferyation I
could make, kw it do any harm, or bring on any
bad fynriptonn, even in cafes where it did not fuccecOt
according to the intention for which it Ve1.5 ordered s
and (which I have thought worth remarking) in
ehronical cafes, even in thofe, where the bark hatly
been by many thought the molt prejudicial, when,
an the coming on of an intermittest Fever, the bark
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