An Inquiry into the nature and causes of fever : with a review of the several opinions concerning its proximate cause, as advanced by different authors; ... including some observations on the existence of putrefication in the living body, and the proper method of cure to be pursued in fever / by Caleb Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, Caleb.
Date:
1785
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    bably every medicine would have failed, the difeafe was effectually cured, and the patient reftored to perfect health *. Nor need we be furprifed at the pernicious con- fequences arifing from a number of evacua- tions when the ftrength of the fyftem is much impaired, if we reflect how effential it is that it be excited in a proper degree for the prefervation of health. If previous to thefe evacuations, and particularly to the highly debilitating one of blood-letting, it was duly confidered how liable we are to be affected by the application of weakening caufes, and at the fame time how neceffary it is that a conftant fupply of aliment be received into the conftitution to fupply the abraded parts, &c. and particularly when we daily obferve thofe who eat and drink moderately, and make ufe of other powers to invigorate the fyftem, prepare no more blood than is confident with health, while the violent reaction, the confequence of a vis medicatrix fo much contended for, does not in reality exift; we muft be led to con- clude how prejudicial thefe feveral ways of G 2 debili- * Vide Millar's Difcafes, p. 91. 1