A review of Mr. Aitken's "Outlines of the theory and cure of fever, on plain and rational principles." With a poetical address to nonsense ... / [Anon].

  • James Tytler
Date:
1789]
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Credit: A review of Mr. Aitken's "Outlines of the theory and cure of fever, on plain and rational principles." With a poetical address to nonsense ... / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *2 ) See. But the word “ morbid” is too general in this place; becaufe it applies to any other difeafe as well as fever. It muft therefore be a fpecific, or fome other kind of derangement pe¬ culiar to fever itfelf; and not a de¬ rangement like that of the gout, ftone, dropfy, Sec. Sec. The fever then is a fpecific, or particular kind of de¬ rangement, fuch as is to be found no¬ where but in fever itfelf; yet, in par. 50. we are told, that “ the fpecific derangement produced by febrile cau- fes, is the proximate caufe of fever; i. e. the fever produced by the cau- fes of fever, is the Proximate Cause of fever ! To the fame pur- • pofe we are told, par. 5 8. that “ the whole fymptoms of fever receive a ra¬ tional and fatisfa dtory explanation from the propofition, that fpecific de¬ rangement of organization is its prox¬ imate caufethat is, from the pro¬ pofition, that the fever is the proxi-
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