An abridgment [sic] of the second edition of a work, written by Dr. Currie, of Liverpool in England : on the use of water, in diseases of the human frame ; and fever, opium, strong drink, abstinence from food, and the passages through the human skin ; with occasional remarks.

  • Currie, James, 1756-1805.
Date:
[1799]
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Credit: An abridgment [sic] of the second edition of a work, written by Dr. Currie, of Liverpool in England : on the use of water, in diseases of the human frame ; and fever, opium, strong drink, abstinence from food, and the passages through the human skin ; with occasional remarks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    « nued ; foch as the infufion of fnake-root, gruel, toa'ft « water, tamarind water, lemonade, Sec. Thefe were * much aided by applying to the feet o» the patient a * warm brick, fteeped in vinegar and corered in a flan- * nel cloth wet with vinegar or (pirits : the fleam, thus « emitted and diffufed through the bed, haJ a wonder - * ful effeft in foftening the (kin and excitirg fweat ; « efpecially where the cold wafliirg had been rrevioufly * employed. * Some practitioners have preferred the practice of * plunging the patient fevcral times in a cold bath, and * violently dafhing the body with cold water. But * Gmply wafhing the patient with cloths dipped in cold * vinegar and water, was found much preferable to im- * merfion+ ; bothbe caufe it more effectually diminifhed « the heat of the fyflcm and was lefs fatiguing to the * patient. Experiments have pwved, that repeatedly * wiping and wafhing with water, in the ordinary way * in which the operation is pcrfcrrrad ; din irjfhed the * heat 7 or 8 degrees more than fimple immerfion, or * dafhitg it over the body with pails. 4 The practice of cold bathing in fevers of this type, * is not a new one, but was very commonly employed * at Brfflawin Silefia ; and of late years lias been very ' fuccefstully applied in the Weft Indies,* as well as in * different parts of Europe, where difeafes of this type ' prevail. * PiofelTor Gregory of Edinburgh, and Dr. Curric « an eminent phyfician at Liverpool, have alio prefcri- ' bed it with great advantage in the low typhus fevers 4 of tliofe cities. But its great fuccefs in the Ne-v-7'ork * ho/pita!** employed ! y Dr. Samuel Bard, and in the * private - + Heft #4' ' tfort deciding /><-re, <wc mujl confnlt Dr. Carrie, e Dr. 'jackjon on the D'/eafa of Jamaica,