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A
 TREATISE ON FEVER.
BY
SOUTHWOOD SMITH, M.D.
PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
PATER-NOSTER ROW.
1830.
PRINTED BY G. HAYDEN,
Little College Street, Westminster.
iTO
HIS GRACE
THE DUKE OF SOMERSET,
PRESIDENT;
TO
THE VICE-PRESIDENTS,
TO
THE TREASURERS,
AND TO THE
OTHER GENTLEMEN CONSTITUTING THE COMMITTEE,
Of the London Fever Hospital;
IN TESTIMONY
OF HIS ADMIRATION OF THE DILIGENCE
WITH WHICH
THEY LABOUR TO PROMOTE THE PROSPERITY,
AND THE
CARE WITH WHICH THEY WATCH OVER THE INTERESTS OF THIS INSTITUTION;
WHICH,
IN THE MAGNITUDE OF THE BENEFITS IT CONFERS,
NO LESS THAN
IN THE INEXPENSIVENESS OF THE MEANS
BY WHICH,
THROUGH THEIR ECONOMY, IT IS ENABLED TO SECURE THEM,
IS EQUALLED BY FEW ESTABLISHMENTS,
AND
SURPASSED BY NONE;
THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED
BY
THE AUTHOR.
iii
PREFACE.
The following Work is wholly of a practicalnature: its object is to ascertain the realphenomena of Fever, and the most safe andeffectual treatment of the disease. It wasfound impossible to include in this volumesome researches of a statistical nature whichit was at first intended to incorporate in thework.
On looking over the account which hasbeen given of the phenomena, I find that,by an oversight, I have omitted to makeany mention of the peculiar odour whichbelongs to a fever-patient. It is so characteristicthat a person, familiar with the disease,might in many cases be able to pronounce,merely from the odour of the effluviathat arises from the body, whether thedisease were fever.
ivI cannot allow this work to go forth tothe world, without expressing my obligationto Dr. Dill, for the great assistance he hasafforded me in the collection and arrangementof the cases which illustrate the symptomsand the pathology, and in the constructionof the tables. And I am happy to availmyself of this occasion to bear my testimonyto the excelle                        
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