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].

Thomas Kirkland

Date:: 1769

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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$fever, for a time ; yet they might not always be able to remove the caufe that gave rife to the fever *, which would fometimes carry off the patient, in oppofition to every effort to pre¬ vent it. M, Might not you have reflected, that from the above paffages, the concluflon, that the extinction fhould always take place, is too rapid [a] ? R. For thofe who fet their heart upon the diftribution of many medicines, it may. — But in regard to the intereft of the patient, w'e anfwer. No. M. You fhould have known, that even the variolous eruption, where the cooling method of Sydenham is fo juflly preferable to the hot regimen of Morton, requires the maxim ne quid nimis. — Jnflances not being wanting, where that has been carried too far (b). R. The practice of Phyfic may, perhaps, afford too many inffances of injudicious treat¬ ment : But, we imagine, if the preternatural heat only, as directed (c), is fuppreffed, we fhall not do too much: As this will be cc keeping the “ blood in its due limits, fo as to hinder it from “ being either too aCtive, or fupine {d)and if the veffels have a proper degree offtrengtb, and elafticity, the morbific matter will be ex¬ pelled: For though there maybe “fomething (a). Anf. p. 20. (/>) Ibid. (r) EBay, p. 28. (a) We have the p^eafure of feeing Dr. Glass join this opinion, (fecond Letter to Dr. Baker.) E 3 “ more”$