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.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    foon affected in confequence of thefe par- tial complaints. He goes ftill further; for he refufes the name of fever to that beat which arifes from an afFedion of the liver, fpleen, lungs, &c. not that, as might be fuppofed, he alludes to the diilindtion of ejjential andfymptomatic fevers; but becaufe, according to his own words, the degree of heat excited by the inflam- mation of thefe vifcera is much lefs con- fide cable than that which has its fource in the heart, which is, in his opinion, the mod inflammable vifcus, not even except- ing the brains, and the mod apt to com- municate its inflammation to the other parts of the body. In feveral other parts of his writings, he mentions the great pra&ical diviflon of fevers into eflential and fymp- tomatic as a dodtrine long eftablilhed, and fays, that the ancients confined the name of fever to that univerfal heat which takes place without any particular inflammation, abfcefs, or eruption. As to thole patients who labour under an inflammation of the fide or lungs, or any other part, they were not laid (he tells us) to have a fever, but