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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    principally depended upon. Such is the cafe, and ic appears extremely odd, that while he confidered fever as arifing from plethora, he mould omit bleeding, which io ciredly and evidently obviates this eiTed. Abflinence and certain degrees of exercife are che great fe- medies, by means of vvhich the diiciples of the Erafiftrateian fchool endeavoured to re- move plethora; and confequently to reftore the health of the patient. The fyflem of prac- tice, which vvas adopted by this fet of men, furnifhes us with a ftrong inftanee of the fmalV importance of the various innovations, perhaps of the little utility of the medical art. Srraton, a very ftrenuous advocate for the praclice of Erafiftratus, remarks, rc<]' cxKKcz $y\criv tjtsivo§ Epucrt^oixjov i7ruiv£i<r9txi c^txaicv z$it xeet dri tffofjii (f.7\i^ojo[xiag ^•poe.irzv^v tx \LS\ct tov $\&o}o[isiv o\ zsr^ccr- Qzv iTtzyjipovv icwOou ttqoc Eoacric. tovc sv P»/ijf, Tom. iv. p. 8. a very fmall degree of merit, in my opinion, as ftating an innovation vvithout any real improvement.—Thofe who wifh to know more about Erafiftratus, may confult Galen—- zzgcc E^acr/g'. xcxi zvgoc Egtxcr. tov$ sv Voojxyi. 4. Though Afclepiades may, perhaps, be confidered as the firft, vvho eftablilhed the ge- neral pradtice of taking the bufinefs out of the hands of nature ; yet there appear to have beenv fome of the ftill more ancient phyficians, vvho occafionally attempted to cut fhort the courfe of fevers abruptly. Phillip of Acarnania, the phyfician of Alexander the Great, ftopt the courfe