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Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 3 of 4
I shall not attempt to give a definition of fever. It appears in so many different forms, that a just view of it can only be given in a minute detail of all of its symptoms and states.
In order to render the outlines of fever, which I am about to deliver, more simple and intelligible, it will be necessary to. Premise a few general propositions.
I. Fevers of all kinds are preceded by general debility. This debility is natural or accidental. The former is the effect of the sanguineous predisposition, and exists at all times in many constitutions. The latter is induced.
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