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 of opium, alcohol, and inanition / [James Currie].

  • Currie, James, 1756-1805.
Date:
1798
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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 of opium, alcohol, and inanition / [James Currie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of fever. © The effects correfponded'exaly “with thofe mentioned ‘by him to have occurred ‘in’ his own cafe; and thus encouraged, the remedy was and of thefe feven patients, the whole recovered. — In the eighth cafe, the afperfion.of cold water feemed too hazardous a practice, and it was not employed. The ftrength of the patient was much impaired’ by lues, and at the time of catching the contagion, fhe laboured under ptyalifm. T'was not then awate again{t the cold affufion, and in‘a fituation fo criti- remedies were directed for this patient, particularly From this time forth, I have contftantly wifhed to employ the affufion of cold water in every cafe of the low contagious fever, in which the ftrength was not already much exhaufted ; and I have pre- ferved a regifter of a hundred and fifty three cafes, in which the cure was chiefly trufted to this reme- dy. Of thefe, ninety-four occurred in the hofpital in the four years fubfequent to the period already mentioned, twenty-feven in private practice, and thirty-two in the 3oth regiment of foot, when quar- tered in Liverpool in the year 1792. © Of late I have «