A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new theory of medical practice : in which the various theories that have preceded it are reviewed and compared : delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio / by Samuel Robinson ; with introductory remarks by the proprietor.

  • Robinson, Samuel.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new theory of medical practice : in which the various theories that have preceded it are reviewed and compared : delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio / by Samuel Robinson ; with introductory remarks by the proprietor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    causes of errour, and the fatal consequences which often result from the established practice. 1st. Fevers are said to be of two kinds ; general and local. Local, from partial injuries or diseased parts; general, from an affection of the whole system, or mor- bid action of all the vital powers. 2d. There are three stages of fever ; the cold, the hot, and the sweating stages. 3d. There are three states of fever; the state of de- bility, the state of cold, and the state of heat. 4th. Causes of fevers are enumerated at thirty-nine and upwards. oth. The forms of fever are, 1st, plague or pestilence; 2d, malignant or yellow billious fever; 3d, inflamma- tory billious, or remittent fever; 4th, intermittent fever. 6th. The intermittent fevers, or agues, are divided into, 1st, the quotidian, or daily fever : having an inter- mission of twenty-four hours; 2d, the tertian, or third day fever: having an intermission of forty-eight hours; 3d, the quartan, or fourth day fever : having an inter- mission of seventy-two hours. Now, when to all these, we add the following sources of mistake and uncertainty, it is not wonderful that more patients are killed than cured by the established modes of practice; and that the incomprehensible theories, and pernicious consequences, have been felt, confessed, and lamented, by every candid mind, from Hippocrates to Stahi-. These we shall now enumerate. 1st. The symptoms of fever are mistaken ; and one disease, or stage, or state, or class, is treated for another ; and the physicians declare, the symptoms are often so blended, complex, and Protei formed and fashioned, that it is impossible to comprehend them. This is one source of uncertainty in practice. 2d. Nosology, or the mournful and dreary list of the names of thirteen hundred and eighty-seven diseases, besides the new diseases, so difficult to be understood, to be remembered, or distinguished, is another source of un- certainty in practice.