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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    have not thought it neceffary to regifter all the cafes in which this remedy has been employed.— Having fatisfied myfelf of its extraordinary efficacy, and of the precautions neceflary in ufing it, I have found it the fhorter method, as well as the more inftructive, to record the inftances in which it has proved unfuccefsful. To relate the whole of my ex- perience would be a tedious and an ufelefs labour. I purpofe to digeft the refults under a few diftin& heads, fupporting and illuftrating each general pro- pofition by an ample detail of cafes. Before, how- ever, this preliminary account is clofed, it will be ufeful to enter more particularly into the ‘hiftory of — the contagious fever which broke out in the goth. regiment, becaufe the account of its rife, progrefs, treatment, and termination, will fupport in a ftriking manner the doétrines. I with to eftablith, and if I do not greatly deceive myfelf, may afford important inftruction, as well as encouragement, to thofe whofe _ duty may call them to oppofe the progrefs of conta- gious fever in fimilar fituations. CHAP.