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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    more convinced of the impropriety of an in- difcriminate ufe of remedies of this defcrip- tion, in the treatment of Fever even of the loweft kind. Yet there are ftill too many practitioners who adminifter to their patients, with an unfparing hand, wine and even al- kohol, with other things of the fame general nature, with little regard to time or other important circumftances. Debility feems to be their only dread ; and to counteract this (which is an effect only, and not the effential part of the difeafe), they refort to the ufe of means that are cal- culated to increafe the caufe. In this way, they not only fail to effect their purpofe, but too often facrifice the patient in the attempt. —If the only effect of the doctrine here incul- cated. were that of inducing a greater degree of caution in the ufe of remedies of this fort, I fhould think I had performed no fmall fer- vice to fociety.