Critical introduction to the study of fevers : read at the College of Physicians, for the Gulstonian lectures / by Francis Riollay, M.D., fellow of the College.

  • Riollay, Francis William, 1747 or 1748-1797.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Critical introduction to the study of fevers : read at the College of Physicians, for the Gulstonian lectures / by Francis Riollay, M.D., fellow of the College. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    names expreffive of its different modifica- . tions. It may eafily be fuppofed that a diftindlion, founded on fenfations alone, is not fufceptible of muchperfpicuity. Clear- nefs is not at any time the chief merit of this author ; but on this fubjedt, whether you try to underffand him from his de- fcriptions at large, or to fix a precife meaning to his expreflions, he is equally difficult and obfcure. Mofl of the paf- fages in that voluminous collection which goes under his name, are equally perplex- ing; and it is remarkable that they are, comparatively fpeaking, but few : there is, however, among his writings, another divifion which implies a great deal of ob- fervation, and muff for ever be attended to; that is, as they arile from a great common fource, or from caufes peculiar to individuals, moft writers have adopted and mentioned it in fome way or other.— His pra&ice was, in feveral refpedts, de- rived from his manner of reafoning on the caufe; for in the diagnoftic, he ufed to place his hands on the breafl and abdomen of patients, and preferred forming a judg- ment