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Show Fluctuation of opinion and practice inferer. afi‘usion Yet in various passages, he presses with earnestness the cold affosion in the fever tual, unless perhaps employed before any one can pretend-certainly to say what the case is, Now a bad case on its approach may be regarded as equivalent to a slighter fever fully formed, In the medical reports themselves, one infrequent variety is pointed out as an exception to the cold affusion.-A young gentleman (whom Dr. Currie would have lamented from his long intimacy with members of his family), at 8 of America and the West-Indies. This, in my view, is ratherinconsistent. For he is quite aware ot'the probable need ofthe application of continued cold. I have compared all the facts which I have been able to procure from British and foreign (Europeanas well as American) sources. "435w urine Dr. 181 Currie himself waves the description of our common fever, because it had been already exactly given. There is no, reason to suppose that fever ofa nature, generally more dangerous, has been delineated with less accuracy. It would take a greater number of pages than I shall venture to add to the present tract to dis- phus is commonly least dangerous, died last spring, though his method was employed under the direction of two very able physicians, . Among persons, illof typhus, whose cases have been stated to me, or whom I have seen during cuss particnlars; and we have not a sufficiency rished (as I suspect from organic disease) and of observations, made according to Dr. Carrie's the only one so treated. mind, to decide the question. But after weigh- ing-the conjoined testimony of description, dissection, and experience, so far as the latter goes, inflammation, diarrhoea, suppression of bile, I shall be most agreeably surprised: if the (1/; juslon of cold crater, sac/z as it is tang/1t by Dr, I! 'I‘ig'Izt «ml iris [Ill/C commentator, shall ez‘er establish itself as the common remalyfor t/zat ,jcz'er, :r/zle/z has lately meager! America and the warmer regions (f Europe. It may do very early and in the slighter cases. In some of those fevers ofour own climate, which put the healing art to the test, it will scarcely be effec- tual, a time and in a condition of life, in which ty- the present year, he was the only one, who pe- For in the rest, local pregnancy, or the late period of the complaint, excluded this capital remedy. He appears to have received the complaint by contagion. Dr. Clutterbuck states from his own observations in 180:5, that pulmonic and rheumatic inflamma- tion had been so frequently excited by the cold affusion in the Glasgow intirmary as to bring the remedy into some degree of disrepute; though the situation of the patient was never rendered materially worse by this accession of disease. Dr. .Ios. Frank, w ho couversed much with |