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 is 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 is established on philosophical induction / By Robert Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thefe are again fubdivided into fpe* cies, according to the fymptoms and ap- pearances ; “ as lipyria, caufus, fyno- chus imputris, iynochus putris, elodes, febris fyncopalis, fpurii, &c.” among the ancients. Some moderns divide Fevers into “ inflammatory, nervQus, putrid, bilious, yellow, miliary, fcarlet, petechial, ma- lignant, and peftilentiaL” Sydenham fays, that the conftitu- tiori of the year is to be regarded, as it produces a fever fut generisT ' When the fymptoms were very urgent, Boerhaave called the Fever “ acute;” when they were more mild and gentle, he denominated it a “ flow Fever.” Some eminent prattitioners divide tliem into “ inflammatory, putrid, and a mixture of both.” Nearly after the lame manner, a learned profcflbr divides Fever into fynocha.