An historical dissertation concerning the malignant epidemical fever of 1756. With some account of the malignant diseases prevailing since the year 1752, in Kidderminster / [James Johnstone].
- James Johnstone
- Date:
- 1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An historical dissertation concerning the malignant epidemical fever of 1756. With some account of the malignant diseases prevailing since the year 1752, in Kidderminster / [James Johnstone]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![P R E FA C AS accurate defcriptions of difeafes have been long and now are univerfally judged, among the beft methods of promoting the healing art; 1 have ventured to make this hiftorical ejfay public, upon a pre¬ emption that the obfervations it contains, may be ufefully applied in treating fevers of the malignant clafs, which, of late years, have been uncommonly prevalent in many parts of England. It has been my cuflom, Jince I have been engaged in the practice of medicine? to write down fhort memorandums of the cafes of moft of my patients, labouring under fevers, \ and other difeafes ; that I might have it in my power to confider thofe which were moft remarkable at my leifure : From a great number of fuch cafes, the defcriptions and cbfervations in the following trail are deduced and com¬ piled. In treating of the cure of malignant fevers, I lay clown no fanative precept, which I have not, in my fphere of practice, experienced abundantly ufeful, and generally fuccefsful. The cautions which I enter againft known practices or remedies, are alfo drawn from a repeated obfervation of their mifchievous effebls. * 'io-ropmv aotpiYiq yap <Wew lv)rpixv]<; <z<k'h(pYiv kou crvvoixov. DemO- p*it. de Nat, Horn, Vid. Epill. Hippocratv Some](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785327_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
