Issue 10, pp. 753-832, October 1861, SMSJ

:784 Joseph Jones, on the Indigenous [OctoberDr. Wright first adopted the practice in his own case andsucceeding in arresting the progress of the fever after twiceapplying the cold effusion.The success of this trial led other physicians to adoptthis mode of treatment ; and Dr. Carrie eleven years afterwardspublished in Liverpool his valuable Medical Reportsfounded upon accurate observations of the effects of coldwater, which exerted a most beneficial effect in removingthe strong and injurious prejudices against the free use oicold water in fevers.We might adduce numerous testimonies to the value oithe external application of water in various fevers, as Typhus,Typhoid, Intermittent, Remittent, and Congestive,from the time of Dr. Curric to the present, but we must deferthese for a more extended discussion, having roommerely to present a few points of practicalinterestPrecautions recommended by Dr. Curric when the Cold Affusionis contemplated.— 1. This remedy should never be usedwhen there is any considerable sense of dullness, althougheven the thermometer indicate a morbid degree of heatIf the affusion of cold water on the surface of the body 1>