Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm : as a remedy in fever and other diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally / by James Currie.

James Currie

Date:: 1805

Credit: Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm : as a remedy in fever and other diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally / by James Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$'4 P. P, Account of inoculation with matter more and less recent, , TT r 1. , , ' ' * • . OO <St Use of the cold afFusion in scarlet fever, . ♦ ^- Dr. Cullen's opinion on small-pox contro- * verted, Operation of the cold afFusiori explained^ * \ 6-] 6i Chap, X. Of tie affusion of tepid -water on the furface of the body in feverish disorders, and of sponging the body ivlth water or vinegar. The affusion of tepid water practised by the ancients, 6 9. Degree of heat to which the term tepid is' ^ ^ ^PP^^ed, ..... , . ,. , • • 6o ' ~ to which the term cool is applied, . . . ^ . ^ ^ Tepid afRision very cooling, but not so perl manent. in its effects as the cold affusion, Sponging or wetting the surface, . , \ ♦Digression on the general action of cold, with remarks on Dr. Brown arid Dr. Darwin (note) Affusion of cold water practised in a fe'ver a^ Breslaw in Silesia, in the year 1737, with an abstract from De Hahn, . . 77 8c *Tepid or warm bath, how used by the Greeks in the heroic ages, . . . , . 86 87 Chap. XI. Of the Internal use of water in fever. Practised among the ancients, ' \ \ gg 'g' •liie Boerhaavean theory of fever brought it . into disrepute, ' • * .89 « .«» ^ ' And$