CHAP. III. Of the signes of putred Fovers in general.
APutred Fever is known. * 1.1 1. From it's heat, which is more gnawing and acrid, then of any other Fever, and that in the increase and state. For in the beginning of fits, the heat doth not at the first touch of the Pulse discover it's acrimony, but if the hand be continued longer it may be percei∣ved, which proceeds from fuliginous vapours which exhale out of putred humours. 2. Because it begins without any manifest cause. Which indeed is a proper sign, but not an inseparable one, for as often as any Fever is kindled without any manifest cause, you may well determine it to be a putred Fever: Yet sometimes humours are so disposed to putrefaction, that upon any light occasion they'l become putred. 3. Urines in putred Fevers ei∣ther are crude or else at least afford but obscure notes of concocti∣on, unless an Ephemeral be degenerated into a putred Fever, o∣therwise there is no putred Fever wherein the Urine in the begin∣ning doth not appear crude or obscurely concocted. 4. The pulse is more changed then in other Fevers. 5. Putred Fevers begin with a cold shaking. Which is a proper, but not an inse∣parable sign. 'Tis a proper sign because neither Diaries nor Hecticks do ever begin with cold shaking; yet it is not insepera∣ble, because all putred Fevers do not begin with a cold fit, as a putred Synocha. 6. It is the property of putred Fevers to return by fits and Paroxismes; and no other Fever hath fits. Yet this is not an inseperable sign, because it doth not agree with all pu∣tred Fevers. 7. Lastly, if any sign be present which is proper to any sort of putred Fevers, 'tis a sign it may admit of the ge∣neral appellation of a putred Fever.