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, M.D.

  • Currie, James, 1756-1805.
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1808
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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, M.D. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Printed for James Humphreys, and for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1808.

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2 volumes in 1 (430 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) ; 23 cm (8vo)

Edition

From the fourth London edition, corrected and enlarged.

Notes

The 4th London ed. was published in 1805. First published in 1797
Publisher's advertisement of chemical and medical books: p. [431-432]
There is a variant issue: 2 v. in 1 (430, [2] p.) with blank leaf instead of advertisement at end
Film 633 reel 33 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 33, no. 596).

Contents

From t.p.: Vol. I. Including an inquiry into the circumstances that render cold drink, or the cold bath, dangerous in health. To which are added, observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition. -- Vol. II. Consisting of the author's experience of this remedy subsequent to the second edition of volume I. And of important commmunications from others on the same subject. To which are added, four letters; one on the sphere of febrile contagion; two on the establishment of a lunatic asylum in Liverpool; and one on the effects of nitrous acid in lues venerea

References note

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 596
Shaw & Shoemaker 14811

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