Although the eruption may, and without doubt does give rise to some peculiar symptoms and so modifies the fever, yet the true character of the disease, or the disease as a subject of medical treatment, depends entirely on the nature, that is in truth on the intensity of the fever. If, therefore, the Exanthemata can find no place under the genus fever consistently with the principles of nosological arrangement, it appears to me that these artificial distinctions ought to be abandoned: because it is better to reject nosology, than to overlook or to mistake pathology.
[23]. Observations on the Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Fever, by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D. p. 15.
[24]. See pathology—chest cases. John Potter.
[28]. Those morbid appearances which, not being constant in fever, must be considered as accidental, are placed in brackets throughout this chapter.
[29]. See Case L.
[31]. Observations on the Diseases of the Army, by Sir John Pringle, Bart., p. 11. et seq.