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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    [ 4° ] * omit evacuations, by urine, or ftool, or € both, if the matter does not pafs off by * the fkin, nor muft other medicines, whe- < ther antipblogiflics, cordial attenuants, anti- c monials, antifeptics, blijlers, or opiates, as c the nature of the fever may require, be c negledted ; and wherever epidemic fevers € have a local rife, particular regard muft c be paid to that -too/-The Ample me¬ dicine how changed ! After this you may not be furprized to find him with quotations from the fore- named authors, Galen, Celsus, and Avi¬ cenna, as reftridtions on the ufe of cold wa¬ ter , his candour could not exert itfelf, to permit thcfc fo full as they might have been; as will, if compared, be fhewn prefently ; yet ftiil they are unluckily ill adapted to his plan : and as if he repented of bringing even thefe, through fear of his readers turning them againft himfelf, he next con¬ demns the venerables, by faying that the an¬ cients differed the fever to make a greater progrefs, than was confident with the wel¬ fare of the patient, before they endeavoured to fupprefs it by cold : Hippocrates him¬ felf cenfured for jQot doing it fooner, and charged