Critical introduction to the study of fevers. Read at the College of Physicians, for the Gulstonian lectures / [Francis Riollay].

  • Francis William Riollay
Date:
1788
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Credit: Critical introduction to the study of fevers. Read at the College of Physicians, for the Gulstonian lectures / [Francis Riollay]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (fire, ’) pofed the heart to be not. only inflamed, but alfo opprefled by a venomous infec- tion. But it is fufficient to have related his fundamental principles. What is moft remarkable in the reft of his ob- fervations, is his divifion of the hectic fever into effential and fymptomatic. The firft made part of a fyftem which he never had the refolution to correct ; the fecond was the refult of experience, which he had too much fenfe and pene- tration to mifinterpret or overlook. Concerning intermittents, he deviated a good deal in his manner of accounting for them from his theory of continued fevers. The ancient notion, that all fevers arife from putridity, which, in deference to Hippocrates, he rejected, at leaft partially, feems, in the contemplation of intermit- tents, to have had much influence on his mind, and, perhaps, to have given rife to his doctrine of the four peccant humours. He imagined that the d/o0d, phlegm, yellow and dlack bile, are liable to fall into a pu- trefcent fkate, and to be the caufes of re- ciprocal difeafes, which, communicating 7 to
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