Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases; whether applied to the surface of the body, or used as a drink: with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition / by James Currie.

Date:
1797
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Credit: Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases; whether applied to the surface of the body, or used as a drink: with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition / by James Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. V11L General remarks on fever. Hi ft ory of a cafe of fever in which the affujion of cold water zvas not fa fa- tary. SlNCE the introduction of fcientific arrangements into medicine, difeafes have been much reduced in number, and their nature has been more clearly underftood. This is efpecially true of continued fe- ver, which is exhibited by Dr. Cullen under three genera only, Synocha, Typhus, and Synochus. Of thefe genera, however, the Synocha, or pure in- ] flammatory fever without topical inflammation, is confefledly a very rare occurrence in this illand; the venerable profefTor uled to declare that he had not met with a Angle inftance of it in forty years practice.—And the typhus and fynochus feem to be confidered by him as the lame difeafe, mo- dified differently, by the difference of climate, feaibn, and