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Sympathy

is not actually stimulated. Contiguous sympathy is
that in which parts sympathise with each other
which are in contact. Continuous is where the
whole arterial system sympathises with an
inflammation of a part. We have also sympathy
from sensation, as sighing in melancholia et&c
but these are perhaps only partial. Mr. Hunter
died of mental mortification, on receiving a
rude speech from one of his rivals. Hectic fever
one of the phenomena connected with this principle,
has been attributed to the absorption of pus. But
that it is not produced by this, we have
several striking proofs—As in cases of scrophula,
when Hectic appears before suppuration takes place,
& in cases of suppurating bubo &c much pus is
absorbed without hectic fever being induced.
Why is not Hectic fever occasioned by the
suppurating stump, after an amputation
of a scrophulous knee joint? Thus we see hectic