Outlines of the theory and cure of fever, upon plain and rational principles / by John Aitken.

  • Aitken, John, -1790.
Date:
[1781]
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Credit: Outlines of the theory and cure of fever, upon plain and rational principles / by John Aitken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be proved) whatever definition be im- pofedupon it, can only be a Modifica- tion of mufcular Action.—It is not al- ledged to be Elajiicity of the fimple So- lid, and therefore muft be the effeft of pre-exifiing Derangement of the ner- vous Syftem, the fource of Aftion and Motion ; confequently cannot be the proximate Caufe of the febrile State, nor a part of it j independently of the inconceivability of its flowing from Debility, while itfelf implies the pre- fence of Vigour.* XXXVII. If it has been demonftrated that Debility and Spafm feperately, can ne- ver become proximate Caufes of Fe- ver, it will not be a little abfurd to contend, that combinedly, they may conftitute it; then indeed two Nega- tives would form a Pofitive. XXXVIII. * Atonia gignit Spafrnum.