A discourse concerning fevers. : In two letters to a young physician. The first, dissuading from all hypotheses and theories, whether physical or mechanical, as vain and delusive. The second, directing his regimen for the cure, and his conduct to the sick person; With some short, but general remarks upon the pulse and urine, in the way of postscript. As also upon the crises, and critical days in fevers. / By Daniel Turner, M.D. of the College of Physicians in London.

Daniel Turner

Date:: M,DCC,XXXIX. [1739]

Credit: A discourse concerning fevers. : In two letters to a young physician. The first, dissuading from all hypotheses and theories, whether physical or mechanical, as vain and delusive. The second, directing his regimen for the cure, and his conduct to the sick person; With some short, but general remarks upon the pulse and urine, in the way of postscript. As also upon the crises, and critical days in fevers. / By Daniel Turner, M.D. of the College of Physicians in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$merits made thereby, and citing fever a l Wri¬ ters that have excell’d therein. But this Objection fitrely mu ft be made from a great deal of Ignorance, or as much of ill Nature, becaufe the Defgn of the Author [very manjfejl through the tenure of both Let¬ ter5] was to caution a young Phyfician in his attending upon Fevers more efpedally, how he founded any curative Intentions upon Theories or Hypothefes thence borrowed, or undertook to explicate their Phenomena by any fuch ; for that it might Jo happen when he had this way harangu’d moft learnedly, and given many Proofs of his Jcholaftick Acquirements 5 when he had\ Ifay, more Mathematico, laid down his Populates, his Axioms and Theorems, making all out in his own way, there might not be one Word of Fruth or Fait, could we be led into Nature’s Secrets, or her infcrutable Pro¬ ve fs during the febrile Gonfiitl. So that if for this Cauje he has advis’d his Friend, in his ConduB at thefe Limes, to be more diligent in obferving her Motions, and rightly difiingulf¬ ing fuch Chara&erifticks only, as may enable him to make the Jiirer and founder Judgment of the proper Genius of the Fever, than in building$

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