Synopsis morborum : A summary view of observations on the principal diseases incident to seamen or soldiers, whether engaged in actual service or retired from it, carefully abridged and digested, from the latest ed. of the author's works, in four volumes. Designed chiefly for the use of professional practitioners in the navy and army. In two volumes.

  • Robertson, Robert, 1742-1829.
Date:
1810-11
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Credit: Synopsis morborum : A summary view of observations on the principal diseases incident to seamen or soldiers, whether engaged in actual service or retired from it, carefully abridged and digested, from the latest ed. of the author's works, in four volumes. Designed chiefly for the use of professional practitioners in the navy and army. In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or symptomatic fever, (what arises from topical affection) alone excepted ; whether appearing in spring, summer, autumn, or winter; whether the subject be young or old, I have been enabled, I say, to ascertain, that fever is the same uni- versal idiopathic disease ; and I was the more directly led to this inference, from having ob- served, that there is but one principle upon which the cure is conducted successfully throughout the universe. This inference being: founded on faithful observation and experience, becomes, in fact, the fairest and most obvious philosophical induction, and is proof, I presume, against the most specious sophistry. I was also thence en- abled to infer that febrile infection has been, in all ages and in all situations, one and the same idiopathic disease, differing only in virulence and mildness according to circumstances, which in- ference is daily confirmed, by its being success- fully cured every where, upon one philosophical principle, of supporting and stimulating the vital energy. The necessity of attending to the state of the bowels in some situations more than in others, does not constitute any essential difference of fever. Practitioners affirming, that this or that fever is not infectious; or that bark will not cure febrile infection; admitting their observation to be correct, no more invalidates the doctrines of the universality of febrile infec- tion, and of its being cured every where, on one