under the small-pox with mortified pustules, and with purple spots
intermixed, to complain of no pain, but to say they are pretty well to the
last moment.

_Recapitulation._

IV. When the motions of any part of the system, in consequence of previous
torpor, are performed with more energy than in the irritative fevers, a
disagreeable sensation is produced, and new actions of some part of the
system commence in consequence of this sensation conjointly with the
irritation: which motions constitute inflammation. If the fever be attended
with a strong pulse, as in pleurisy, or rheumatism, it is termed synocha
sensitiva, or sensitive fever with strong pulse; which is usually termed
inflammatory fever. If it be attended with weak pulse, it is termed typhus
sensitivus, or sensitive fever with weak pulse, or typhus gravior, or
putrid malignant fever.

The synocha sensitiva, or sensitive fever with strong pulse, is generally
attended with some topical inflammation, as in peripneumony, hepatitis, and
is accompanied with much coagulable lymph, or size; which rises to the
surface of the blood, when taken into a bason, as it cools; and which is
believed to be the increased mucous secretion from the coats of the
arteries, inspissated by a greater absorption of its aqueous and saline
part, and perhaps changed by its delay in the circulation.

The typhus sensitivus, or sensitive fever with weak pulse, is frequently
attended with delirium, which is caused by the deficiency of the quantity
of sensorial power, and with variety of cutaneous eruptions.

Inflammation is caused by the pains occasioned by excess of action, and not
by those pains which are occasioned by defect of action. These morbid
actions, which are thus produced by two sensorial powers, viz. by
irritation and sensation, secrete new living fibres, which elongate the old
vessels, or form new ones, and at the same time much heat is evolved from
these combinations. By the rupture of these vessels, or by a new
construction of their apertures, purulent matters are secreted of various
kinds; which are infectious the first time they are applied to the skin
beneath the cuticle, or swallowed with the saliva into the stomach. This
contagion acts not by its being absorbed into the circulation, but by the
sympathies, or associated actions, between the part first stimulated by the
contagious matter and the other parts of the system. Thus in the natural
small-pox the contagion is swal