nsorial power faster, when their motions are
impeded, than those which are subjected to intermitted action; it happens,
that some of the parts, which were affected with torpor during the cold
fit, recover their irritability or associability sooner than others, and
more perfectly, or acquire a greater quantity of them than natural; as
appears by the partial heat and flushings previous to the general hot fit.

Hence if all the parts, which were previously torpid, regain their due
degree of irritability, or of associability, the disease is removed, and
health restored. If some or all of them acquire more than their natural
degree of these sensorial powers; increased actions, and consequent
increased secretions, and greater heat occur, and constitute the hot fit of
fever. If after this hot fit of fever all the parts, which had acquired too
great irritability, or associability, regain their natural degree of it;
the disease is removed, and health restored. But if some of these parts do
not regain their natural degree of these sensorial powers, the actions of
those parts remain imperfect, and are more or less injurious to the system,
according to the importance of their functions.

2. Thus if a torpor of the heart and arteries remains; the quick pulse
without strength, which began in the cold fit, persists; and a continued
fever is produced. If the torpor of the stomach and intestines remains,
which are known by sickness and undigested stools, the fever is liable to
be of considerable length and danger; the same if the kidnies and absorbent
system retain some degree of torpor, as is shewn by the pale urine in not
unusual quantity. If part of the absorbent system remains torpid, as the
absorbent vessels of the spleen, a tumour of that viscus occurs, which may
be felt by the hand; the same sometimes happens to the liver; and these
from their tendency to more complete torpor are afterwards liable to give
occasion to a return of the cold fit. If the cellular absorbents do not
completely recover their activity, a pale and bloated countenance with
swelled legs mark their want of action.

3. As the termination of the cold fit is owing to the accumulation of the
sensorial power of irritation and of association during the previous
quiescence of the system; and as those parts, which are in perpetual action
during health, are more subject to this accumulation during their torpor,
or quiescence; one should have imagined, that the heart a