THE

HISTORY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT

OF THE

FEVERS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

HISTORY,

DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT

OF THE

FEVERS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

BY ELISHA BARTLETT, M. D.,

PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE IN THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

AND SURGEONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK;

MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES;
AUTHOR OF AN ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, ETC. ETC.

All diseases, then, ought to be reduced to certain and determinate kinds, with the same exact-
ness as we see it done by botanic writers in their treatises of plants. For there are diseases that
come under the same genus, bear the same name, and have some symptoms in common, which,
notwithstanding, being of a different nature, require a different treatment.
In writing,

therefore, a history of diseases, every philosophical hypothesis, which hath prepossessed the writer
in its favor, ought to be totally laid aside, and then the manifest and natural phenomena of dis-
eases, however minute, must be noted with the utmost accuracy, imitating in this the great
exactness of painters, who, in their pictures, copy the smallest spots or moles in the originals.—
Sydenham.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by
LEA AND BLANCHARD,

in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.