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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    fiance.—Botanifts having collected eigh- teen or twenty thoufand plants, from dif- ferent parts of the globe, and obferving in their fize, in their frame, in their fow- ers and leaves, conftant marks of fimila- rity, or evident lines of diftinGtion, natu- rally thought of facilitating the acquire- ment of that fcience, by dividing thofe numerous productions into clafles, fami- lies, orders, &c. with a reference of every fpecies to one or other of thefe heads.— In doing this, they proceeded upon a fure ground, and worked upon a certain, de- cided, pofitive fubject, which, excepting very few varieties, may be faid to be, at all times, conftantly one and the fame. But phyficians, in endeavouring to diftri- bute fevers in fimilar clafies, labour under unfurmountable difficulties. If it is pof- fible to eftablifh two or three general claffes, it is abfolutely impracticable to fubject {pecies to any tolerable regularity. From age, fex, mind, body, habit, diet, circumftances, and accidents, they. are, and ever mutt be, fo different, and fo nu- merous, that every cafe may be faid to be