Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and febrile diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally / by James Currie.

Liverpool : Printed by J. M'Creery, ... ; for Messrs. T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Strand, London ; and Mr. Creech, Edinburgh, 1804.

2 volumes (I. xx pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 379 pages, 1 unnumbered blank leaf; II. vi, 383-630 pages, 55 pages, 1 unnumbered blank leaf, xv pages) ; 23 cm

The third edition, /

LSHTM Library bookplate accession date - 23 March 1956; LSHTM Library accession stamp date - 13 Sep 1967

Spine title : Cold and warm water as a remedy in fever &c

I. Including an Inquiry into the circumstances that render cold drink, or the cold bath, dangerous in health. To which are added, observations on the nature of fever; and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition.-- II. Consisting of the author's experience of this remedy, subsequent to the second edition of Vol. I. in 1798 ; and of important communications from others on the same subject. To which are added four letters ; one on the sphere of febrile contagion; two on the establishment of a lunatic asylum in Liverpool; and one on the effects of nitrous acid in lues venerea

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