Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    t • J f 4 The nature of this fluid feems ex¬ tremely doubtful. Its confiftence and colour was that of pus, yet the fym- ptoms which ufually attend its forma¬ tion, and denote its prefence in the body, were never obfervable during the whole progrefs of the difeafe. He had fuffered no hedic fever, no waft- ingof flefh, no night-fweats. No mark of inflammation .had appeared during the whole difeafe, except that violent attack above defcribed three weeks after 4 *■ f * ' r' X £ his firft complaints began, and three months before their fatal termination. Can pus be lodged in the body without producing hedic fymptoms, when entirely fecluded from the at- mofphere ? Every praditioner muft have obferved, that when the fource of a purulent difcharge is expofed to the air, Hedic fymptoms become more violent, as in the inftance when alumbal abfcefs is opened, or there is an open ulcer in the lungs: yet an occult fup- puration