The therapeutics of the respiratory passages / by Prosser James.

  • James, Prosser, 1836-1918.
Date:
1885
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    recommended water, and even powdered ice or snow, in fevers, both inter- nally and externally. In 1730, Boudon 1 collected in two volumes thirteen essays on the subject by various writers. In 1734, De Hahn 2 gave an ac- count of a terrible epidemic at Breslau, in which the mortality was not re- duced until cold affusions were used, and in which he himself suffered and was restored by cold sponging. Hoffmann3 (1747), Smollett 4 (1752), C. Lucas5 (1756 to 1758) in a very able essay, Percival' (1769), Englehart7 (1776), De Hersfeld 9 (1776), and many others followed. In 1779, Dr. bright presented to the Medical Society of London an account of a num- ber of cases, including his own, in which he had systematically employed affusions with the greatest benefit. On reading these, Dr. Currie,9 physician to the Liverpool Infirmary, determimed to adopt the practice, which he did with great success, as testified in his Reports, the first of which was pub- lished in 1797 and the second in 1804. From this time the modern practice has been frequently dated, and Currie has been regarded as the reviver of the method. But Dr. Jackson,10 in 1798 and in 1808, must also be credited with no little influence, and although he differed in some respects from Currie, in many others confirmed his views. Indeed, Dr. Francis Adams, the accomplished translator of Hippocrates, expressed his regret that the profession did not follow Jackson rather than Currie. Dr. J. E Stock 11 in 1805 produced his Medical Collections on Cold. Giannini12 and Mal- lonay 13 (1805) recommended cold baths in all forms of fever. Frohlich 14 (1820) regulated his practice by the use of the thermometer. In 1819 Dr. Bateman, in his treatise on cutaneous diseases, pronounced cold water 1 Boudon : Les vertus medicinales de l'Eau commune ou Recueil des Meilleures Pieces, etc. 2 vols 1730. • De Hahn: Unterricht von der Kraft und Wirkung, des frischen Wassers in die Liebe der Menschen. 1734. 3 Hoffmann, J. A. : De usu et virtute aquaj simplieis. 1747. 4Smollett: Essay on the External Use of Water. 1752. 6 Lucas, C. : Essay on Waters. In three parts, treating of 1, Simple Waters ; 2, Cold Medicated Waters ; 3, Natural Baths. 3 vols. 1756-1758. 6 Percival: Experiments and Observations on Water. 1769. I Englehart. F. J. : Dissertatio sistens aqure frigidre interno. 1774. 8De Hersfeld, St. : De Aqu« communis differentiis usu et Viribus. 1776. 9 Currie, J. : Medical Reports on the Effects of Water, Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fever and Febrile Diseases. 1797. Second Series. 1804. 10 Jackson. Outline of the History and Cure of Fever. 1798. Exposition of the Practice of Affusion ; Cold Water on the Surface of the Body as a Remedy of Fever ; to which are added On the Effects of Cold Drinks, etc 1808. II Stock: Medical Collections on the Effects of Cold as a Remedy in Certain Dis- eases. 1805. 15 Giannini: Delia natura delle febbri. 1805. 13Mallonay: De usu aquae frigid?e in febribus. 1805. 14 Frohlich, A. : Griindliche Darstellung des Heilverfahrens in entziindlichen Fie- bern uberhaupt und insbesondere in Scharlach, etc.