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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Baronet and Knight of the Bath, Prefident of the Royal Society, &c. &c. &c. SIR, IN presenting this volume to you,- I beg leave to say a few words on the views with which it was written, and the circumstances that gave rise to the publication. About eighteen years ago, when 1 was at Edinburgh, it fell to my lot to write a paper on the influence of cold on the living body, for one of the societies of students, of which I was a member. In defending my speculations against some ingenious opponents, a perpetual contra- diction occurred as to facts, which a reference to original authorities, did not enable me to re- move; for I discovered, that the accounts given of the temperature of the human body under dis- ease, even by the most approved authors, are, with a few exceptions, founded, not on any exact mea- surement of heat, but on the sensations of the patient himself,, or his attendants. a a Impressed