A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates / by Robert Jackson.

  • Robert Jackson
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates / by Robert Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    titioners who have ventured to prefcribe ftrong animal food to patients labouring under acute fevers. The other part of the procefs, viz. the drenching with cold water, has prevailed, more or lefs, in different countries and in different ages from a very early period till the prefent time. With the Greeks it appears to have been a remedy of common ufe. Galen particularly lays great ftrefs upon it, and details very exactly the manner in which it ought to be condufted; fome part of which it may not be fuperfluous to tranfcribe.—E7Z5 o;AAoy Is xaja tov avjov yjpovov, og %^UV SavjoV S7TS T/SJlf/S, XaQ' SKUgYjV T£0(f»JV £$t$0[J.SV ctKpatcpvovg TSSYfyuLOV '\ivyjjov, <zsojs [X.SV $vo xva9ovg, sgi 5e ots Tosig, a9poov yap 01 TOtovjoi ^vypov ov <p«- pownv otvsv tov @XuQrivai. ho xaKktgov sgtv svOvg sv Tca T&ooSJcp zvctpo%vo-[j(.ct}) Stayovja tov zvvpsjov ty\v tSsav9 dKivc^vvoojsPov ygr\crao-9ai \vyjpcc zirKsovi, ^.v^sttoo fyipoov ' mavoog toov o-oojjuxjwv ysyovojoov.—'O yovv sk Svjjlov 'urvps^ag sv TOtg V7ro xvva Kavpotcri, Qsppog nat f>og vsavio~Kog, sv tc*> Txrpoojct} zfxapo^vcr^co zsioov vdajog ^vypov $vo xojvKag, avjixa spsos yoXrjv %av9oja i*lvi s%sx.ptve 5' oXtyov vgspov Kat xajoo, xa7rstj' uv- 6tg stvi ty\ TPOtpn XaQoo opotoog vtiajog ocrov x.o]vXyjgy ovxsji S7TV 'ps%sv. ' With regard, however, to this pra&ice, he adds, UoXXYjg yap aKpi£siug Isljat v.a~ ia to \uSTpov stti toov ovjoog syovjoov, $00-tg tov ^jv- yjpov. De curat. morb. lib. io. The Arabians were likewife great advocates for the praclice of giving cold water in fevers; and there are fome of them who feem to have carried the ufe of it to a very great length. Avicenna obferves,