An essay on fevers : wherein their theoretic genera, species, and various denominations, are, from observation and experience, for thirty years, in Europe, Africa, and America, and on the intermediate seas, reduced under their characteristic genus, febrile infection, and the cure established on philosophical induction / by Robert Robertson.

  • Robertson, Robert, 1742-1829.
Date:
1790
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Credit: An essay on fevers : wherein their theoretic genera, species, and various denominations, are, from observation and experience, for thirty years, in Europe, Africa, and America, and on the intermediate seas, reduced under their characteristic genus, febrile infection, and the cure established on philosophical induction / by Robert Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    impede or accelerate her operation, i. e. the famous Vis Medicatrix Nature, ralhly,” it was very evident from their practice how foon they loft fight of, and how lit- tle they regarded, their own precept. Theory, we fee, firft advances the moft cogent reafons for diminiftiing the vio- lence of “ Reaffiion” the impetus of the blood, or the Vis Medicatrix Natura, by taking away lefs or more blood, repeat- edly perhaps, which employs the firft, if not more days, of the patient’s illnefs. Theory, for the fame reafon, and to carry off part of the morbific matter, preferibes vomiting, purging, fweating, and warm bathing, alternately for days. To remove fpafm from the extreme vef- fels; to promote and keep up moderate perfpiration, and the different fecretions and excretions, theory orders neutrals in different forms—fp. mindereri, faline draughts, nitre, crude fal ammoniac, fal