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. Vol. I: Including an inquiry into the circumstances that render cold drink, or the cold bath, dangerous in health. To which are added, Observations on the nature of fever; - and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition. Vol. II: Consisting of the author's experience of this remedy subsequent to the second edition of volume 1. And of important communications from others on the same subject. 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 on the effects of nitrous acid in lues venerea. From the 4th London edition, corrected and enlarged / [James Currie].

Date:

1808