Fever physiologically considered; considerations on yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, cholera, and sea-scurvy; also the questions of contagion, and the quarantine laws; with an address to the public, &c. on the popular treatment of cholera / By David M'Connell Reed.

  • Reed, David M'Connell, -1889.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Fever physiologically considered; considerations on yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, cholera, and sea-scurvy; also the questions of contagion, and the quarantine laws; with an address to the public, &c. on the popular treatment of cholera / By David M'Connell Reed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5th. That morbid irritation depends on deficiency of oxygene in the blood. 6th. That the primary impression, (which consti- tutes the predisposition) in the production of fevers, of whatever kind, is made, not on the solidum vivum, the nervous system, (as the moderns say,) but on the fluidum vivum, the blood (as the ancients and the great John Hunter said, and as the Bible implies). 7th. That the exciting, or occasional causes of fever, whether physical or moral, operate on the solidum vivum, the nervous system; and so far, it appears to me, that the moderns are right ; but they seem to have erred in not attaching due importance to the predisposing causes, which determine the nature of fever. 8th. That the treatment which is necessary for the cure of malignant fever, is positively injurtous in the case of simple fevers; and, vice versd, what would be insufficient to cure malignant fevers, will be quite efficacious in the treatment of simple ones. How far I have succeeded in supporting these propositions, (which I believe to be truths, and to be the legitimate results of my investigations,) you, dear Reader, have a voice in determining. If, however, the following little volume should prove the means of tncreasing your knowledge,