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

  • Riollay, Francis William, 1747 or 1748-1797.
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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    mGt>.) fuming feveral years in that fort of con- templation, the ftudent, upon leaving his books, and coming to a fick bed, either finds his memory at a lofs to refer the cafe to any recorded inftance, or his judg- ment embarrafled in trying to underftand it, from the confined principle which he has been taught to confider as the caufe of every form of fever ; whereas, if in- ftruéted to look upon fever as a fign of fome particular or general affection, and accuftomed to take fymptoms as his guide for difcovering the efficient caufe, every cafe will fupply him with opportunities of applying his notions of theory to prac- tice, and of deriving from the one fome rules of conduct for the other.—~Should the {pecioufnefs of accuracy, which the plan of botanic arrangement of fevers un- doubtedly carries with it, render fome people averfe to rejecting it, they might reflect, as has been fuggefted before, that there is no foundation for fuch a fimila- rity ; that the effential requifites of like- nefs are wanting in this comparifon ; that it is a mere imagination, deftitute of fub- {tance,—