An essay on the nature of fever, being an attempt to ascertain the principles of its treatment / by A. Philips Wilson.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1807
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    Befides, certain pre-conceived opinions feem to have influenced all who have writ- ten on the nature of fever; and it appears to me, that the difficulty which has at- tended the inquiry, has proceeded as much from the manner in which it has been con- duced, as from the nature of the fubjeft. Many have formed their hypothefes either from a partial view of fever, as in the Firft Lines, or from other phenomena of the animal fyftem, as in the ELementa Medicines; and the chief aim of the theorift has been to Ihew in what way his hypothefis may be applied to accotint for the phenomena of fever. This mode of reafoning would not be admitted in any other fcience. It is not only neceffary for the theorift to point out the fteps by which he has arrived at his conclufion, but to fhew that the pheno- mena