Observations on fevers, wherein the different species, nature and method of treating those diseases, are represented in new and interesting points of view ... / by John Roberts.

Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations on fevers, wherein the different species, nature and method of treating those diseases, are represented in new and interesting points of view ... / by John Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ . . ( 24 ,) nfefs, with which he left us the Defcription of Fevers ; that he knew of no certain or rational Method of curing them. Does not that foollili Deference we pay I'o Men that liv’d long fince, our Paflage flay ? What odd, pre'poft rous Paths at lirft we tread. And learn to walk by flumbling on the dead ? POMFRET. Indeed, were we to leave Fevers entirely to Nature, it may be poffible that their Termi- nations may have fome Relation to thofe critical ] )ays deferibed by Hippocrates; but even in that Cafe, I am much of Opinion, that we fliould find them iiappen indifcriminately on all other days. In a w'ord, fetting afide all idle, profiilels Conjcdlures; and inflead of lofing Time in waiting for the critical Day, the Ob- jedt of pur difordered Imagination; it is our Duty, fieadily to attend to fuch Method of I I Fradlice, as we know to be moft likely to re- lieve our Patients, in the moft effedlual and f|)eedy Manner. The NccefiTity of this is pe- culiarly great in Fevers; as the Time, in which wc CAD be of I'crvice to the Sick, is very fhort, and