Excerpt from Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 24: Begin a Half-Yearil Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical SciencfsThe disease may thus terminate, either gradually or suddenly, and in the greater number of cases it does really so end. In some cases, how ever, the second accession is not only terminated by a crisis, but this crisis is succeeded at an interval of four or five days by another accession, which may again be followed by crisis, intermission, and a fourth acces sion. N 0 less than five of these accessions, or relapses, have been known to occur.Various sequences follow this fever, of which the most remarkable are a form of Ophthalmitis, (well described by Mackenzie, ) rheumatic like pains, parotitis, (which may also occur during the fever, ) anasarca, and furunculi.The disease, whose main features we have thus imperfectly indicated, although comparatively unknown ten years ago, has been so attentively studied by British practitioners, that we are, perhaps, better able to determine the mode of succession and the variation in the symptoms, by means of numerical analysis, than in the case of any other fever.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.