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CONTINUED FEVER.

be subdued by the use of cups, blisters, &c.; as regards
drinks in this fever, I am in favor of cold water, and as
much as the patient desires, and I regard it as one of
the best things that can be given.
Whilst upon this subject of continued fever we, in
common with most writers, include the description of
what are by a very respectable number of American
physicians, considered as two distinct affections, and fre-
quently designated at the present time under the names
of Typhoid and Typhus fevers.
The former, Typhoid fever, the'descriptions of which by
the French and English physicians generally, accord
with the peculiar phenomena attending continued fever
in this country. Some contend that the difference here
alluded too are of a secondary importance, whilst others
maintain that they are to be accounted for only by ad-
mitting the existence of two radically distinct fevers, as
above mentioned. It is true that the symptoms we
have described in continued fever are almost precisely
those we find in typhoid fever, many contend for two dis-
tinct diseases; and in Bartlett's Treatise the subject is
handled with great care, and in that masterly manner
in which that distinguished author alone seems to pos-
sess the faculty.
Before closing my article on this subject, I cannot
refrain from noticing an article from the pen of Dr.
Fenner, of New Orleans, in reply to an article of Dr.
Boling in the New Orleans Medical Journal, November
ber number, 1852. Dr. Fenner there takes high ground,
in what he terms the abortive treatment in continued
fever. So far as our experience goes, we are inclined to
the opinion of Dr. Boling. We have in a few cases only,
administered quinine in five grain doses, and the result in

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