Volume 6

Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and other diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally ... with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects opium, alcohol, and inanition / Vol. II consisting of the author's experience of this remedy, subsequent to the 2nd ed. of vol. I in 1798 ... To which are added four letters; one on the sphere of febrile contagion; two on the establishment of a lunatic asylum in Liverpool; and one of the effects of nitrous acid in lues venerea.

  • Currie, James, 1756-1805
Date:
1804
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Credit: Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and other diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally ... with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects opium, alcohol, and inanition / Vol. II consisting of the author's experience of this remedy, subsequent to the 2nd ed. of vol. I in 1798 ... To which are added four letters; one on the sphere of febrile contagion; two on the establishment of a lunatic asylum in Liverpool; and one of the effects of nitrous acid in lues venerea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fever into the Infirmary, (which was contrary to one of the original rules of the inftitution) was objected to by fome of the friends of that charity. They allowed the benefit arifing from a receptacle for fever, but they contended that the Infirmary was not adapted to that purpofe ; and that the attempt to render it a hofpital for fever, the wards already mentioned being all that could be allotted to that difeafe, did not afford the relief required, while it obfiruSted the original purpofes of the inftitution, The want of an afylum for this dif- eafe elfewhere overcame thefe objeCtions. But about the beginning of 1793, a contagious fever having prevailed in the Workhoufe, two fpacious wards were fitted up in that building by the Parifh Committee, for contagious difeafes; and an arrangement having been made for the re- ception of fuch cafes of fever as prefented them- felves at the Infirmary, into the wards of the work-houie, from that time the admiffion of fever into the Infirmary has ceafed. Contagious difeafes, and more particularly fe- vers, have in general been excluded from the hof- pitals of England, thofe of London perhaps ex- cepted; but the evidence of our own Infirmary and Workhoufe, of the Chefter Infirmary, and of various fimilar inftitutions, proves, that under pro- per regulations they may be admitted under the fame