An inaugural dissertation, on the rheumatic state of fever : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost : the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 12th May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Edward North, of South Carolina, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.

Edward W. North

Date:: 1797

Credit: An inaugural dissertation, on the rheumatic state of fever : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost : the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 12th May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Edward North, of South Carolina, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ *3 ] of no other caufe, than the gentle ftimulus of a warm room. Spirituous liquors are a frequent fource of this difeafe, they have occafioned, and ftill con- tinue to occafion, an innumerable train of ills to the human race. They are, when immo- derately ufed, to perfons, what manure is to vegetation, which haftens the progrefs of the fruit, but deflroys the plant, This difeafe, as v/ell as molt other inflammatory diforders, is too frequently the effedt of that deteflable cuftom, the excefs of drinking fpirituous li- quors. For my part, I think a proportionate and moderate ufe of them, would, perhaps, be rather falutary than otherwife; but, as Zim- merman obferves, there are but few men, who know how to ufe them with difcrction. There are many other facts to prove in the mofl clear and decided manner, the prejudicial effctl: of hard drinking, but the above, I prefume, quite fuf- fices to corroborate my opinion. OF THE PROXIMATE CAUSE. It lias been the occupation of phyficians, for ages pad, to inveftigate the nature and caufe of difeafes, and according to the difcovery of the proximate, have they generally adapted their method of cure. D

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