febrific

No one doubts that the Negro is able to resist certain miasmatic and febrific diseases which are so destructive to the white race in the tropical regions of the earth.

But the stomach of our State, if we may be permitted to use the expression, is, as yet, too tender and febrific to allow such a fearful deglutition.

Associated words: febrifacient, febrific, febrierous, febrifuge, febrifugal, pyretology, pyretic. feverish, a. febrile. fever spots. petechiæ. fewness, n. paucity. fiat, n. order, decree, mandate, edict, command. fib, n. falsehood, untruth. fiber, n. staple, thread, filament, pile. fickle, a. vacillating, volatile, mercurial, irresolute, fitful, capricious, unstable, inconstant, variable, wavering.

Very likely," says the doctor: "I have known people eat in a fever; and it is very easily accounted for; because the acidity occasioned by the febrile matter may stimulate the nerves of the diaphragm, and thereby occasion a craving which will not be easily distinguishable from a natural appetite; but the aliment will not be concreted, nor assimilated into chyle, and so will corrode the vascular orifices, and thus will aggravate the febrific symptoms.