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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    [ 17- ] separation and combination go forward in a self- aftive, animated body; while, on the contrary, in the Dead-chemical Fermentation, they take place out of such a body, among mere lifeless substan- ces. It would, therefore, be absurd to apply the laws of Dead Fermentation to the Secretions and Excretions dependent upon life, in the same man- ner as they hold with regard to dead matters. It is true, the laws remain the same in themselves; but in the Animated Body there is such a variety of Organs and Powers, of the most complicated Affinities, and of determining Principles, that we can never say, Because this or that produft proceeds from Dead Fermentation, it must like- wise appear in the living body, under similar pas- sive conditions. XXIX. As every disease, in general, is a peculiar modi- fication of the state of Life of the body, so also is Fever, in particular, a modification of this state. The word Fever is accordingly used to distinguish a peculiar state of Life, which must discover it- self by a certain form, in order to charafterize a Genus of Disease, diflferent from all other Diseases. XXX. In so far as, by the term Fever, we point out a certain form of Disease, which belongs in common c to
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