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Diaphoretics

with great and unexpected prostration, the vital powers being
almost suspended, the temperature of the body alternately cold &
hot, skin dry and pale, forehed smooth, eyes glassy, the pulse at
first full and after a little depressed and tremulous, delirium
and fatuity, stupor and lethargy, which symptoms occurred
in rapid succession and ended in death, unless early arested.
Another form in which it appeared was pulmonic congestion, chill
succeeded by a fever, during which there was a great determination
to the lungs evinced by labored respiration, flushed face, red eyes,
and vertigo, the pulse was full, voluminous and strong, seeming
to require depletion, from this stage the patient sunk into almost
utter prostration, Anictas precordia, tension of the forehead loss
of muscular motion, pulse extremely quick even to 140 in a minute