An Exposition of the Practice of Affusing Cold Water on the Surface of the Body, as a Remedy for the Cure of Fever : To Which Are Added, Remarks on the Effects of Cold Drink, and of Gestation in the Open Air in Certain Conditions of That Disease

Robert Jackson

ISBN 10: 1334690669 / ISBN 13: 9781334690662

Published by Forgotten Books, 2016

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Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 454 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Exposition of the Practice of Affusing Cold Water on the Surface of the Body, as a Remedy for the Cure of Fever : To Which Are Added, Remarks on the Effects of Cold Drink, and of Gestation in the Open Air in Certain Conditions of That Disease
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1334690669
• ISBN 13: 9781334690662
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Hervorragend
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This 1808 medical treatise caused controversy by defending the use of cold baths as a cure for a fever, despite its effectiveness being well-documented. Its author, a former army physician, conducted his own experiments in the West Indies and England. His work argues against the widely held contemporary medical opinion that fevers were caused by increased body temperature. Instead, he theorized preventing fevers required a specific bodily state, which could be achieved through bloodletting and other preparatory measures before applying cold water to the skin.