An essay towards an improvement in the cure of those diseases which are the cause of fevers / [Thomas Kirkland].

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1722-1798.
Date:
1767
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Credit: An essay towards an improvement in the cure of those diseases which are the cause of fevers / [Thomas Kirkland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mu ch more to the fame purpofe may¬ be found in the ancient writers on phyfick; but thefe fufficiently {hew, that they often extinguifhed fevers by cold; for certainly the quantity of cold water Hippocrates, Celsus, Avicenna, &c. gave, muft im¬ mediately render all the neighbouring parts to the ftomachcold, and thus cool the blood and quiet its increafed motion. And are not we to confider the fweat, and bilious {tools, which followed upon drinking cold water, and cold bathing, as the confequence of the fever being fubdued, and nature thereby being left at liberty to difcharge the morbific matter without oppofition ?— Celsus exprefsly fays, “ A long found deep “ comes on, and fweat breaks out after a remifion of heatand when the fever was not abated by cold, Galen thought there were not any hopes of recovery. Hippocrates, we fee, increafed the degree of cold, in proportion to the vio¬ lence of the fever ; and his intention is ve¬ ry evident, when we reflect upon what he has faid of cold potions in thefe diforders k; for after obferving, <c That fome pro- k De Morb. Lib. iii, Frigefadfc. potiones in febre ar- denti. «( c mote