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.

James Currie

Date:: 1808

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Vll a. series on similar subjects, if I should ever write them; and it may I hope, stand alone, if I should write no more. I am sensible that some of these particulars would have appear- ed with more propriety in a professed preface ; but having enter- ed on certain explanations in my address to you, I have given the whole of these preliminary observations in the same form ; a free- dom that I trust you will forgive. I cannot conclude without declaring the sense I entertain of your candour and politeness. Accept the tribute of my respect.—May you live long to cultivate and protect the sciences—the sciences, whose utility is beyond dispute j whose progress is superior to ob- struction ; and which, of ajl the possessions of man, seem least to partake of the imperfection of his nature! I have the honour to be, Sir, Your faithful and very obedient Servant, JAMES CURRIE. Liverpool, 31st Oftober, 1797.

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