Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases; whether applied to the surface of the body, or used as a drink: with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition / by James Currie.

Date:
1797
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Credit: Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases; whether applied to the surface of the body, or used as a drink: with observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition / by James Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    of Dr. Lind ; theTyphus irritativus of Dr. Darwin. In popular language, it is generally called the ner- vous fever, and where particular fymptoms appear, the putrid fever. It is generally produced in fixa- tions where there is a want of cleanlinefs, and more efpecially of ventilation ; and when produced, it is propagated by contagion. This is the common fever of England ; its fymptoms have been detailed with great minutenefs in a variety of modern pub- lications, and A have therefore declined repeating defcriptions that are every where to be met with. Dr. Cullen has defined the difeafe as follows— ei Morbus contagiofus; calor parum ainflus; pulfus “ parvus, debilis, plerumque frequens; urina parum “ mutata ; fenforii functiones plurimum turbatae ; “ vires multum imminutae.” In fixteen years pra&ice I have found the contagious*fever of Liverpool re- markably uniform, and in general to correfpond exactly with this concile and perfpicuous definition. This difeafe prevails chiefly among the poor, who 'from the nature of their diet and habits, are pecu- liarly expofed to the caules that produce it. Seldom extending itfell in any confiderable degree, among the other clafl'es of the community, it has been fup- pofed that Liverpool was little iubjedt to fever ; but this will be (hewn, from authentic documents, to be a great and a pernicious error. Let us proceed at prefent to inquire into the rules that ought to govern