On fever and its treatment in general : published by command of the King of Prussia, by the Higher College of Medicine and Health of Berlin, 1800 / Gottfried Christian Reich ; translated from the German by Charles Henry Parry ; to which are added, a preface by the translator, and an appendix by Caleb Hillier Parry.

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1801
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Credit: On fever and its treatment in general : published by command of the King of Prussia, by the Higher College of Medicine and Health of Berlin, 1800 / Gottfried Christian Reich ; translated from the German by Charles Henry Parry ; to which are added, a preface by the translator, and an appendix by Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and 9, ill a letter dated Nov, 12, 1799; not long after which, he received from the King of Prussia an order to go to Berlin; the King declaring it his intention to reward him, should his Theory and Remedies stand the test of examination. For this purpose a Com- mittee was appointed of four celel)rated Phy- sicians, Selle, Fritze, Richter (of Goettingen) and Formey; and experim.ents were imme- diately instituted under their inspe6lion at theCharite, a famous Hospital at Berlin, esta- blished by the present Monarch on the ruins of the fortune of the late King s celebrated Mistress, the Countess of Lichtenau. From December 26, 1799, to Jan. 24, 1800, Reich treated in this Hospital twenty-eight patients; of whom twenty-three recovered; three, re- fusing to take the medicines, remained un- cured, and two others died. Of the two who died, one was a beggar, on the fifth day of a relapse of a Nervous Fever; and the other a consumptive patient, with a sudden Ulcera- tion of the Lungs. See a Letter of Reich, dated Berlin, ]\Iarch 14, in the Reich's An- zeiger. No. 71, March 25. After the con- clusion of the experiments, the Royal Com- mittee published at large, in Formeys Ephcmeriden, a favourable report of Reich, of