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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![courfe of a violent ardent fever, which that conqueror caught from bathing in the river Cydnus, or from cxceis of fatigue in hot wea- ther. The means appear to have basn violent; but unfortunately we do not know what they adtually were. Vid. Arrian. lib. xi. p. 66. edic. Gronov. Piutarch. Vit. Alexand. 5. We muft not, perhaps, depend implicitly on the authurity of Ceiius for hiftorical fa£t. Though fii&ion and warm bathing were not probably employed at Rome before the time of Afclepiades; yet they feem to have beer» commonly knovvn m Greece long before this period. ln the Journal of the Life of Alexan- der, the progrefs of the difeafe, which proved fatal to that celebrated warrior, is very accu- rately detailed; and we find that bathing, or the air of the bath, was a ufual remedy on account of the fever. [Plutar. in Vit. Alex.] The writings of Afclepiades are not now to be found ; but many of his mofl important innovations have been tranfmitted to us by Celius and Caslius Aurelianus, the principal of which it may not be fuperfluous to tranfcribe. Anti- qui, medicamentis quibufdam datis, concocl:io- nem moliebantur ; eo quod cruditatem maxime horrebant : deinde eam materiam qua? laedere videbatur, ducendo fseprus alvum fubtrahebant» Alclepiades medicamenta fuflulit; alvum non toties, fed fere tamen in omni morbo fubduxit. Febre vero ipfa praecipue fe ad remedium, uti profefTus eft. Convellendas etiam vires aegri putavit, luce, vigilia^ fiti ingenti, fic, ut ne os quidem](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21440633_0505.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
