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 : 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 on opium, alcohol, and inanition.

  • 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 : 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 on opium, alcohol, and inanition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vll as myself, that it was become general in Liver- pool, and common in the county of Lancaster. So long ago as the year 1791, a general state- ment by Dr. Brandreth of its advantages had been published by Dr. Duncan, in the Medical Commentaries of that year. It had also been noticed by me in the philosophical transactions for 1792, (see Appendix, No. II. p. 39) and I had repeatedly mentioned it in private corres- pondence ; it had often been recommended to the surgeons of African ships in those examinations required by the legislature, and which are chiefly made by the physicians and surgeons of our hospital. On different occasions likewise I had not only explained, but exhibited the practice, to practitioners from a distance, and particularly to one or two going to the West Indies. A me- thod of treatment so bold and so contrary to common prejudices, made however, as it appears, slow progress. The mode of operation of our remedy has been misapprehended; the proper period for using it has not been understood ; and on some occasions having been resorted to im- properly, the consequences have brought it into disrepute. Reflecting on these circumstances, and exposed by situation to the re-iterated sounds of death from the Western world, my decision was speedily made: I resolved no longer to delay an account of our treatment of fever, in the ex- a 4 ■ peclation