An answer to Mr. Kirkland's Essay, towards an improvement in the cure of those diseases which are the cause of fevers. Wherein is shewn, the error of his arguments for the use of cold water in extinguishing fevers / [Archibald Maxwell].

  • Maxwell, Archibald, -1769
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1768
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Credit: An answer to Mr. Kirkland's Essay, towards an improvement in the cure of those diseases which are the cause of fevers. Wherein is shewn, the error of his arguments for the use of cold water in extinguishing fevers / [Archibald Maxwell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *8 ] too rapid : thefe fweats and bilious ftools add¬ ing as critical difcharges of the morbific- matter. Nature after this, not wanting to relieve herfelf, it being already done. % ' *- i f. Perhaps the writer may allege, that this is not applicable to his meaning ; indeed it is difficult to fay what is his meaning here : Sure I am, he is not in every part confid¬ ent. Paulus’s words are not afiertions that this method of curing fevers is only right —• he faying that the fever is curable by vomit, fweaty fiQol, and urine; or extinguiffied by cold water. Thus you may obferve the ex- tinguiffiing intimates without any vifible fe- cretion \ and if our author does not mean this by his extinguijhing> he ffiould have ufed other words, and told us, that water will thus adt as a diaphoretic, cathartic, emetic, or diuretic critically. Nor is Rhazes’s authority amounting to more than a prejudice in its favour, from its being fuccefsful fometimes. ■’ < *• \ , * . .. . . • Avicenna feems more exprefs in the large quantity, yet this author will probably appear,