A reply to Mr. Maxwell's Answer to Mr. Kirkland's Essay on fevers; wherein the utility of the practice of suppressing them, is further exemplified, vindicated, and enforced / [Thomas Kirkland].

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1722-1798
Date:
1769
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Credit: A reply to Mr. Maxwell's Answer to Mr. Kirkland's Essay on fevers; wherein the utility of the practice of suppressing them, is further exemplified, vindicated, and enforced / [Thomas Kirkland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ; ) INTRODUCTION. IF I know my own heart, I am very certain, the Effay concerning Fevers, which I lately offered to the confidera¬ tion of the publick, was written with an honeff intention : To lay before it what appeared to me a matter of importance, and which it was hoped would be accept¬ able ; the fadts produced in favor of the 'extinction of fevers, being delivered with the ftridteft regard to truth, whether col¬ lected from other Writers, or related from my own obfervation.—-And I have lince had the very great pleafure of meeting with the approbation of many men of good fenfe and learning ; and of feeing the good effedts of the dodtrine advanced, both in other people’s patients, and thofe who have been immediately under my own care. —And I was in hopes cautious and impartial trials would have hereafter de¬ termined, whether the practice adviied, was to be rejected or approved. How7ever, wdthout once feeing the effeBs of ext ingulfing a fever, or having had the leaf experience in this matter, Mr. Max- A WELL,