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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    e< mote urine, others ftool, fome both, <l-and others neither f he adds, “ Some “ only cool in the fame manner, as when <( cold water is poured into a veflel of hot *6 water, or when the veffel itfelf is ex- “ pofed to the cold wind/’—And is it not probable, that with this intention, he ufed water which was extremely cold? Upon the whole, it feems evident, that all the writers mentioned expeded, like Paulus, to extinguifh the fever by cold. And as this pradice was continued fullfif* teen hundred years, there is reafon to think, that it was often ufed with fuccefs.-—In¬ deed, I know the writers a long time after Galen were mere copiers ; and equally imitated the bad, as well as good pradice, as I may perhaps fhew in a work, which I have foiiie thoughts of fhortly offering to the chirurgical readers.—Yet as the ufe of cold, in the cure of fevers, was adopted by Hippocrates and Celsus: and as we have the independent teftimony of men in our own times, proving the fame fad; there is the ftrongeft realon poffible to think that the practice was well founded. The