A treatise on febris asthenica gravis, or the severe asthenic continued fever / by Peter Faugeres, surgeon and practitioner of physic, New-York.

  • Faugeres, Peter, -1798.
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
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Credit: A treatise on febris asthenica gravis, or the severe asthenic continued fever / by Peter Faugeres, surgeon and practitioner of physic, New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    To LEWIS FAUGERES, Efquin, Surgeon and PraSitioner of Phyjic, New-YorL Honoured Sir, THE gratitude I owe you for the liberal aid which you have always afforded me, when in the purfuit of fcience is fufficient, inde- pendent of any other confideration, to induce me to offer you the following Treatife. On perufing it, you will find I have confidered, under the fame head, a variety of phenomena or fymptoms, which, by manyPhyficians, are ima- gined to conftitute very different and oppofite difeafes: In this I truft I have followed nature, inltead of being milled by the falfe and unnatu- ral diftinctions every where to be found in fyf- tems of modern nofology. The tafte for divid- ing difeafes into a variety of fpecies hath defcen-