Volume 1
An examination of Mr. John Wesley's Primitive physic / [William Hawes].
- William Hawes
- Date:
- 1776
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An examination of Mr. John Wesley's Primitive physic / [William Hawes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 43 ] entertain the fame ideas as the gentlemen of the Fa¬ culty ; for, in the nervous fever, his remedy is cream of tartar and milk : in the flow fever, no internal re-, medy whatever is advifed, but he recommends, dai¬ ly, the ufe of the cold bath, for two or three weeks. It is too true, that the nervous, or flow fever, is apt to continue feveral weeks, and the fymptoms often become, fo irregular, that it requires the utmoft at¬ tention to preferibe fo as to give the remedies their greatefl efficacy; but Mr. W. with his ufuai indif¬ ference, indifcriminately orders cream of tartar and the cold bath, without paying the feaft regard to the different circumftances of this diforder, of which there are hardly two cafes alike. As the author did not fit down, merely with a view to expofe the errors and abfurdities of Mr. W.’s performance, but alfo with a defign to offer his read¬ ers fuch obfervations as fhould occur to him, which * might be of a beneficial tendency, he will here take the liberty of making a few general remarks, rela¬ tive to Mr. W.’s method of claffing fevers, and the mode of treatment recommended by him, in fo vio¬ lent and dangerous a difeafe. Mr. Wefley clafles fevers under the following heads : a fever, a burning fever, an acute fever, a continual fever, a he die fever, an intermitting fever, a fever with pains in the limbs, a nervous fever, a rafj fever, and laftly, a flow fever. Upon which it may be obferved, that Mr. W. has read or underflood little of this fubjed, to confider a burning fever, an acute fever, a continual fever, and a fever with pains in the limbs, as different kinds of fevers. My experience and obfervation have con¬ vinced me, that what are here fuppofed to be four different kinds of fevers, are one and the fame dif¬ eafe. As for inflance, with refpect to what is called a burning feveris there not more or lefs heat, in general, in fevers ? And is it not abfurd, that, be-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30790888_0001_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
