The American Practitioner, 1875, Vol. 11: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The American Practitioner, 1875, Vol. 11: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery

The study of the antipyretic Operation Of the cold-water treatment manifestly involves the mechanism of the production of heat within the body in health and disease, together with the laws which regulate the uniformity Of the normal temper ature. Recent views relating to these topics possess interest and importance, but they do not come within the scope Of this essay, and I shall now proceed to give an account Of the clinical researches - of Currie.* Currie's publications were by no means still-born; they were received with much consideration by his contemporaries. His method Of practice was adopted to a considerable extent in Great Britain and in other countries, and there was abundant testimony in its behalf; yet after a few years it passed almost entirely out Of medical practice. It was not altogether lost sight of. Trousseau, for example, in his Cliniqzze Medicale, advocated it in cases Of scarlet fever on the basis Of his own large experience. Most authors on practice and therapeutics have referred to it, but generally as a measure which had become Obsolete. Iwill venture to say that during the last half century very few have read his writings. I confess that I had not read them prior to a couple of years since, when from curiosity I Obtained his book, entitled Medical Reports on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and other diseases whether applied to the surface of the body or used internally.

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