Volume 1

The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown.

Date:: 1800-1803

Credit: The institutions of the practice of medicine : delivered in a course of lectures / by Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld ; translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$] lency, or fhaking and rigors, affecting the back and loins principally,—or are derived from a bad 1 manner of living, thofe fame fevers, I fay, feem tto him to have their fomes in that part where ifuch fymptoms occur. It muft be remembered, {however, that the febrile caufe, collected in any ppart merely by irritating the nerves and fibres, imay excite fever without paffmg into the blood, :as violent pain or inflammation of any part does ; {but that it is moved from the place in which it iis contained, and ejected from the fyftem perio- dically by the febrile motion which is excited, by the preceding irritation of the nerves and the fpafmodic affection of the fibres. Befides, there are fome who do not confider it as abfurd to fup- ipofe, that that caufe arifes in the blood itfelf, and remains in it, and is occafionally increafed and ediminifhed in fuch a manner, that the febrile ac- uielhon and its departure follow, without being de- rived from any other fource. 8 I. But let us allow that that fomes is trans- ferred bv certain circuits from fome j of the parts already enumerated into ^atmly^bcof. ihe blood. Yet who can certainly fer.e4 t0 thclc inform us what is its firft origin, md in what place it is concealed and collected ? For if we fuppofe that place to be the cavity of the flomach or duodenum, or the receptacles of ■{he bile, or any other part of the intcftincs;$