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Ferers-The recent discoveries of Drs CLANNY and STEPHENS, the former resident or native oi Sunderland, (Eng) and the latter practitioner oi the West Indies, are said, upon high authority, to change all the received opinions on the ndt"re anu treatment of Ferers Dr STEPHENS has satisiactorl- ly proved that the proxmate cause of KitO1 Fever, is to be found in the changes which the blood under goes and that the remedy for this and other le- yers, consists in opposing, by proper means ihese changes. Until very recent period, the ofganic lesslons (hurts) capable of producing death III e. vers, were supposed be confined exclusively 10 the solids of the body or in other words thn the hulds, in which the course of the blood Is included, had no' share in producing fatal termination. This theory told, had many opponents, but that It, never theless, generally prevailed, until Dr CLANNY sub mltted it to the direct experiment. The changes which the blood undergoes, are said. by Dr c. 10 be incontesbe; and the violence of the symptoms, and the certainty of death are proved, by him, to be strictly relative to the rapidity and extent oi those changes. The practice of Drs CLANNY and STE PHENs, which has for its special object to prevent the recurrence ofhose changes in the blood Of which we have spoken is said to be attended with exaor- dinary In of typhus fever. where care is taken to protect the system from the pencious ef fleets of early excitement, the symptoms may be led, as it were, at will to q speedy and favorable terml- nation Similar means produce the same effects irf yellow fever. The treatment which should be re- sorted to in the edry stages of these levers, consists

 

 first taeenfyour hours, by yenesecton, (bleeding,Y mild purgatives, and sponging the body with cold water. The saline medicines, which are the best agents for preventing the decomposition olihe blood, are then exhibited in small aad repeated doses.- Those usually preferred are the Rochelle Salt and the Carbonate of Soda, Potass, and Ammonia Not single case in three Hundred and forty, in which this practice tried proved fatal It can be clear ly proved, says Dr STEPHENS, that in the West ln- da levers, those patients who left to nature have better chance of recovery than those who treat ed with emetics, calomel, antimony, opium acids-these remedies increasing the evils they are meant to relieve, and add greatly to the mortality of erer in hot climates Dr STEPHENS states that those who attend only to the solids, cure single case cf Yeio,o Ferer that IS really serere. This i'm provement in the treatment of fever is spoken of in the highest terms by Dr ELLIoTsoN, and others, and merits, we conceive, the immediate and serious at- tention of our physicians in Charleston. We have drawn up the above statement, greatly abridged from elaborate article upon the subject, contained in late number of the London Neso Monthly Magazine. -ChariestOn Courier