A dissertation on simple fever, or, On fever consisting on paroxysm only / by George Fordyce.
- George Fordyce
- Date:
- MDCCXCIV [1794]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on simple fever, or, On fever consisting on paroxysm only / by George Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![[ *|* ]■ A iimple Sv.ermay.be terminated in other Wavs than a c-rifis, fo as to be carried off, but then the-patient is not freed from difeafe, fo as to return to his natural healthy flatc. Its termination in other difeafes will be no- ticed in a future dhTertation, All fevers, according to the author's obfer- vation, are either the difeafe which has been defcribed, or repetitions of it modified in a great variety of ways, and every enquiry into the hiftory of the difeafe mull be found- ed upon a knowledge of iimple fever, Galen is the only one who has armied whether allfe- vers are repetitions of iimple fever v/ith dif- ferent modifications. All the authors who have treated the 1 r have fallen into confufion, which can only be^avoided by a diftinct idea of fimple fever, a description of which has been endeavoured to be given in the above pages, In a future differtation the author propofes to point out the manner in which fimple fever is repeated with vari- ous modifications, fo as to form all the varieties of the difeafe. F I N I S.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174167_0244.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
