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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    reader will fee the imperfeft outline of the prefent Effay. I there only pointed out, that in fever the laws of excitability differ from thofe of health, and this change I was contented to regard as the proximate caufe of fever, without attempting to afcertain on what it depends. ^ In the fecond volume, which appeared in 1800, I comprifed in the following lines the refult of my obfervations on this fub- jea. Towards afcertaining the proximate caufe of fever I did not attempt to do much. It appears, as far as I can judge from the obfervations alluded to, that fever is not owing to any change induced on the fluids, their becoming too acrimonious, too vis- cid, &c. nor to any change in the ftate of the fimple folid, nor to a partial change in that of the living folid, fuch as relaxation, or