FEVER, a disease or rather a whole group of diseases, one general, though not universal, symptom of which is in creased heat of the skin, besides which the pulse is frequent, and various func tions are disturbed. Fevers may be di vided into continued, periodic, and erup tive or exanthematous. Under the first are ranked typhus, typhoid, and relap sing fevers; under the second, inter mittents and remittents; and under the third variola, rubeola, and scarlatina. Yellow fever belongs to the remittent rather than the continued type; so also does hectic fever. Puerperal fever should be removed to the class of inflam mations.
FEZ, a city of Morocco, capital of the province, as it formerly was of the king dom of the same name, and residence of a kaid or governor. It is singularly and beautifully situated in a funnel-shaped valley, open only to the N. and N. E., the sloping sides of which are covered with fields, gardens, orchards, and ()rano groves, 95 miles from the Atlan tic, 225 N. E. of Morocco, and 80 miles S. E. of Tangier. Fez contains about 100 mosques, the chief of which, called El Carubin, is a fine structure, and possesses a covered place for women who may choose to participate in public prayers—a circumstance unique in Mo hammedan places of worship. Public
baths are numerous and good. Twice a year caravans go from Fez across the desert to Timbuktu. This city has al ways been considered one of the chief seats of Moslem learning. Old Fez was founded in 793 by Edris II., a descend ant of Mohammed, and continued the capital of an independent kingdom till 1548, when it was, together with its territory, conquered, and annexed to Morocco. Fez has always been held so sacred by the Arabs and others, that when the pilgrimages to Mecca were interrupted in the 10th century, the Western Moslems journeyed to this city, as the Eastern did to Mecca; and even now none but the Faithful can enter Fez without express permission from the emperor. Pop. estimated at 100,080, of which about three-fourths are Moors and Arabs, and the remainder Berbers and other cognate tribes, Jews, and Negroes.