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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    mong T^Iankind, as that One, nam- ed Fever ; it is a Theme, there- fore, weighty and import nut j and meriting fundamental inveftigation. Medical Writings on the fuh- jecT of Fever, for the moft part, have ever appeared to me to be unfatisfaefiory, confnfed, unprin- cipled, and therefore, unphilofo- phical : I fear they have been not a little baneful in their pradical application. It . is my earrt^'ft will), in the publication of the followin^pages, to reduce the Doarinc andTreatmeut of Fever to a rational ^ndfalur tary fimplicity. Indifpenfiblc A- vocations prevent me from exhi- biting a full Delineation of this ffrand Subjea : to trace its Out- ® lines,