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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt:... Afterwards, the heat of the body returns, and soon becomes dry, burning, and much above the natural standard; the countenance is now flushed and tumid; there is often acute pain of the head, sometimes slight delirium; the pulse is strong, full, and frequent, and the thirst urgent. These symptoms are followed, first, by moisture of the skin, and then by an universal and equable perspiration, which terminates the fit The whole paroxysm generally occupies about eight hours. In the intermission, the countenance is apt to be pale and shrunk, and the constitution in general to be affected with languor and feebleness. In the commencement of agues, however, tht patient is sometimes free from indisposition. Spring agues are, in general, less severe and obstinate, and less liable to be followed by dangerous consequences, than the autumnal; they ari also less liable to return. Causes.--The chief predisposing cause is debility, however induced; but the grand exciting cause is marsh miasma, or the effluvia arising from stagnant water, or marshy ground, impregnated with vegetable matter in a state of putrefactive decomposition. Dampness, and the night air, are particularly favourable to the full operation of marsh miasma. Ague does arise, however, from other causes than marsh effluvia; and it may be produced by sympathy, or irritation in the stomach and intestines. Treatment.--Ague is a very curable disease, and in this country at least very simple measures may be taken. On the commencement of the actual fit, the patient should be placed in bed between the blankets, and partake freely of warm, diluting, but not stimulating, drinks, as water-gruel, barley-water, &c.; and thirty or forty drops of laudanum may be given in a little cinnamon water. In some cases, the lau...