First lines of the practice of physic, for the use of students in the University of Edinburgh / by William Cullen.

Date:
1781
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    ' rf-Sj Jgi] j y ■■ jil’ : r. XL VII. This doctrine will, as we luppole, ferve to explain not only the nature of fever in general, but alfo the various cafes of it which v *• > r* vj» occur. Before proceeding, however, to this, it may be proper to point out the opinions, and, as we judge, the miftakes which have formerly prevailed on this fubjed. XL VIII. It has been fuppofed that a lentor or vif- cidity prevailing in the mafs of blood, and ftagnating in the extreme veflels, is the caufe of the cold ftage of fevers and its confequen- ces. But there is no evidence of any fuch vifcidity previoully fubfifting in the fluids ; and as it is very improbable that fuch a ftate of them can be fuddenly produced, the fud- dennefs with which paroxyfms come on, renders I