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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    Narrative of Dr. Wright. IN a number of the London Medical Journal, published in the Summer of the year 1786, Dr. William Wright *, formerly of the island of Ja- maica, gave an account of the successful treatment of some cases of fever by the ablution of the patient with cold water. | ce “Qn the Ist of August, 1777,” says Dr. Wright, “I embarked in a ship bound to Liver- pool, and sailed the same evening from Montego Bay. The master told me he had hired séveral sailors on the same day we took our departure ; B one (1803.)