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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    p. CHAP. I. Narrative of Dr. Wright, I In a voyage from Jamaica to Liverpool, he employed the affufion of cold water in fever, i to 5 Chap. II. Hijiory of a fever which broke out in the Liverpool Infirmary, .... 6 The affufion of cold water firft pra&ifed in this fever by the author, December, 1787, 68 Chap. III. Hijiory of a fever which occurred in the if>th Regiment, .... 9 How produced, ..... 9 10 Situation and fymptoms of the fick, . . 10 The progrefs of the infection how flopped, 11 13 In what fituations this practice may be imitated, 13 14 Chap. IV. The manner in which the affufion of cold water fhould be ufed in fever, . . i§ The kind of fever in which it is to be ufed, 15 16 The time and manner of ufing it, . . 17 Not to be ufed in the cold ftage, nor when the heat is below what is natural, nor in the fweating ftage. 18 19 20 Chap. V. Cafes in whifh the affifion of cold water was ufed in different Jlages of fever,, . 21 Seven cafes detailed, . . . . 21 Comparifon of the advantages attending the affufion of cold water at different periods of fever. 30 Case, VIII. The cold affufion ufed in inter- mittent fevrr, ..... 31 32 Chap. 30