Reflections on fever: intended to point out the principles upon which a systematic and useful method of treatment might be established / By Robert Calvert.

  • Calvert, Robert, 1782-1850.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Reflections on fever: intended to point out the principles upon which a systematic and useful method of treatment might be established / By Robert Calvert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the stream is said to fill the vessel, or cause the effect of fulness; but it is to be considered, that fulness does not happen till the end of the operation; and that any interruption, during the course of it, would leave the effect in a state agreeing ex- actly with the quantity that had fallen at the time of the interruption. To ren- der the matter still clearer, we may sepa- rate these events to a greater distance from each other, by allowing the water to fall drop by drop. Here, the first drop falling into the vessel (the vessel, how- ever being as necessary as the drop) pro- duces the effect of a drop being contained; the second drop falling, that of two, and and so on till the vessel will contain no more; and it is the last drop that falls, previous to its running over, in conjunc- tion with all the preceding ones, and with the vessel itself, that causes the effect of plenitude. The effect of sound, and pro- bably that of vision, is produced in the same way. A certain concussion of the air at a distance from the ear, produced by a combination or violent contact be-
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