A treatise on fever, or, Selections from a course of lectures on fever : being part of a course of theory and practice of medicine / delivered by Robert D. Lyons.

  • Lyons, Robert Spencer Dyer, 1826-1886.
Date:
1861
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Credit: A treatise on fever, or, Selections from a course of lectures on fever : being part of a course of theory and practice of medicine / delivered by Robert D. Lyons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •) emulate their learning and zeal, and their devotion to their urt. And truly a great task lieu before you, great in its purposes, noble in its ends. It ranks second to but one: that which ministers to the glory c»f our Maker. Hy fur tin* most important of the duties to which you will l»e called, when you pass into the world as practising physicians, no matter in what clime your lot may la* cast, will lx? those which will devolve on you in connection with the treatment of fevers. “ Et profocto hand oucitauter impugnandum est hoc inorborura Lam pcstiferurn agmen, quod nullo non die cum genere hurnano belluingerit iuUTnecinum at/jlie conroroov et cujus telis duo ad minimum homi- uum trientcs (si eos demos qui violent/! morte peri- muntur), confossi quotauui* occumbunt” In the wonls which I have here quoted from Sydenham, that great observer states, that excluding deaths from violence, fevers constitute nearly two thirds of all the diseases by which mankind perishes annually. And I believe that this statement is hardly in any way to be regarded as an exaggera- tion for his day. It is not perhaps in the generations of men that pass silently away by disease, ils it invades the homes of the ]*x>r year after year, that its effects are most terribly felt, and most strikingly manifested. It is in the midst of war’s mingled triumphs and alarms, when the false pride, or the insulted honour of nations, or the love of conquest, pits against each other the flower of their youth on the battle-field, that disease, and pre-eminently febrile disease, makes its most deadly havoc. To take no other example, I think I should be justified in saying that considerably more than half of the whole deaths