An inquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / by William Nisbet.

Date:
1795
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    the fame appearance as in the ftrft days of the malady; but it always recurs before the fatal event. To thefe leading fymptoms of the difeafe, the Rate of the principal functions, during its pro- greis, may be alfo joined. The appetite, we find, till towards the end, not much impaired; fometimes even a voracious appetite prevails. The digeftion, alfo, fullers little or no interruption. The fenfes are clear and unaffected ; that of hearing is fometimes increafed, and the functions of the brain, teem to lol'e little, or none of their energy, while the reft of the fyftem ftiews the ftrongeft marks of decay. Of the animal facul- ties, it may be obferved, the delire for venery is augmented, efpecially towards the end of the dif- eafe ; and when indulged, as in the Rate of ma- trimony, it hurries on, more rapidly, the fatal ter- mination of the malady. This difeafe is, properly, of two fpecies, which we may term the acute and chronic ; the former clofes its career in the fpace of three or four months from its commencement, and proves fatal; the other is protracted, for a term of years, with intervals of cafe. The patient complains in win- ter and fpving, and gets better during fummer and autumn. It generally, however, though not always, proves fatal at laft; either by the increafe of the pectoral fymptoms, or, on their remiflion, an attack of dropiy fucceeds. In the former cafe, the fatal penod with molt perfons, is the end ot fpring,