There were a few physicians, however, who objected to such a stimulating prac tice, and insisted upon the necessity of blood-letting and other evacuants, and who still contend, that an anti-phlogistic course of treatment was the most successful. It may be said, indeed, that the prostration and debility must have been produced by some active disease, and if that disease could be arrested by early bleeding, and other means, much of the prostration would be prevented. But, however true this may be in general, in the present instance, the good effects which generally followed a judicious course of stimulants, sufficiently showed that no such disorganization was produced by the disease, which was supposed to cause the debility, as to render it unsafe to trust to them to remove it. If the bleeding recommended had failed to prevent the sinking by arresting the disease, it must have increased the exhaustion, and consequently added to the difficulty of the cure; and to perceive accurately when it would be liable to do this, would have required a nicety of discrimination greater than belongs to most practitioners of medicine, if, indeed, it can ever be attained. The results of the treatment were very various in different places. In many places, the disease, though violent and severe, yielded to remedies with a docility truly remarkable. At the same time, it required unceasing vigilance and care to prevent fatal relapses. In such places, most of the deaths seemed to result more from accidental imprudences or neglect, than from the incurable nature of the disease itself. In other places, the disease was speedily fatal to a large proportion of those attacked. In some small districts, twenty or thirty died in rapid succession, before any recovered. Much of this inequality is doubtless to be attributed to differences in the virulence of the epidemic itself. But there are many facts which go to show, that something must be ascribed to diversities of treatment. The comparison here intended, is not between the diaphoretic and stimulating practice on the one hand, and the antiphlogistic on the other, so much as between either of these and an awkward attempt to engraft either upon a routine of earlier days, which many men found it difficult to abandon. To our minds, the stimulating treatment, properly regulated, was incomparably preferable in its effects to the bleeding; but either was immeasurably better than the hesitating, inefficient practice to which we have alluded. If it were proper to go into details, many examples might be adduced, in which a change of practice was followed by a change of results, in the same neighborhood, and often in the same families, so immediate and so striking, as to render it difficult to attribute the difference to any thing but the change of treatment.— The principal treatises on spotted fever, besides various papers in the several medical journals of the time, are North on Spotted Fever; Strong on do.; a Report of a Committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society, published in the second volume of that society's communications; Gallup on the Epidemics of Vermont; and Hale on the Spotted Fever in Gardiner. Rhætian Alps (see Alps).... 10 Riccoboni (Lodovico).. Rhea (wife of Saturn).. Rhamazan, or Ramadan... Rhapsody : 22 Right and Left Bank of a River " Right, Petition of (see Petition " of Right)....... "Rights, Bill of (see Bill of Rights) " Declaration of (see 23 Bill of Rights)... 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