Volume 1

A treatise on febrile diseases. Including intermitting, remitting, and continued fevers ; eruptive fevers, inflammations, hemorrhages, and the profluvia ... / by A. Philip Wilson.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847
Date:
1799-1804
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    PP Mer Wuen I first turned my attention par- ticularly to febrile diseases, I had no view of undertaking so laborious a work as that in which Iam now engaged. For several years I devoted the whole of my time to the study of these complaints, in order to qualify myself for reading lectures on them, which I did in the summer of 1796, at Edinburgh. My reasons for making choice of febrile. diseases for the subject of my lectures were, that they form the most important branch of medicine, and that which is least generally understood. The practice in most other dis- eases is simple. In dropsy, for instance, we give a diuretic; if one fails we prescribe another; there is no nicety required in their exhibition; there are no minute circum- _stances to be considered, in order to deter- mine the propriety of prescribing the re- Bey) ; all we cacelh to ascertain is, what the _ disease