An inquiry into the seat and nature of fever; as deducible from the phenomena, causes, and consequences of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection. In two parts. Part the first. Containing the general doctrine of fever / [Henry Clutterbuck].

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856
Date:
1807
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Credit: An inquiry into the seat and nature of fever; as deducible from the phenomena, causes, and consequences of the disease, the effects of remedies, and the appearances on dissection. In two parts. Part the first. Containing the general doctrine of fever / [Henry Clutterbuck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which have been relied upon as if they were exclufively adapted to the purpofe; while the practice of others has been confidered as worfe than ufelefs. : The choice, in this cafe, has lain not merely between remedies of the fame gene- ral character and operation; but between thofe of the moft oppofite defcriptions. Bloodletting, fweating, bliftering, cordials, refrigerants, acids and alkalines, heat and cold, have all been favourites in their turn, and confidered as alone deferving of con- fidence. . This contradiction exifts or has exifted with regard to almoft every active remedy employed in the cure of Fever, and occafions the greateft embarraflinent to the young and inexperienced practitioner. The want of a fundamental principle to cuide him in his choice of means has been ftrongly felt and acknowledged ; and it can only be fup- plied, as it appears to me, by the eftablifh-