Volume 3

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 / by James Currie.

  • Currie, James, 1756-1805.
Date:
1805
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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 / by James Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cuap. XVI. General view of the doctrires bok respecting fever—-Hippocrates, Galen, &9c— The ideas of ihe author respecting the nature of this aisatey? 2-788 ; : ; >; 220-20 Doctrine of Hippocrates, . ; . bie be of Galen, 80). 4%: : : beget fe 3 of Sydenham, aa oc : . 229 SLLiotman sy, is : . » 239 of Cullen, : Nt yc auf : Bs dla of Brown, ies é ; en OISIQE Wie” Fee ple es . Rar de | Speculations on fever by the author, ~ - 236 256 Practical inferences. * 256 259 Use of the cold bath and an drink 3 in id plague, 261 Communication on this subject with Mr. Howard, . f : : ce taal : 262 Cuap. XVIE. Animal heat—its origin. Per- spiration—its cooling influcncee Mode of ope- vation of othr remedies in in i ap eS opium, e5%e, : : ° ; . 264 300 Origin of animal heat, a recent chemical dis- covery, : Pn yi x . 266 Evaporation from the surface regulates the living heat, : ‘ . 8 *Quantity, of the matter perspired uncertain— Sanctorius, Cruikshanks, Lavoifier, and Se- guin, referred to, 3 ; ey ee Cooling effects of edema eiaeovenea by Dr. Cullen, and applied to explain the cool- ness of the body in an instance of extraordi- nary external heat, by Dr. Franklin, a ae by Dr. Bell, ‘ ‘ Sey £3 Cooling