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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by

A. P. MERRILL, M.D.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York.

2106 M57 1865

LECTURES ON FEVER.

LECTURE I.·

FEVER.

WE are now to enter upon the consideration of one of the most difficult subjects of our profession-fever. It is difficult, not because much cannot be said and written upon it, but because, rather, of the much which has already been said and written, to such little purpose. The subject is difficult, too, because of the discrepancy in the views and opinions of authors, the number of discordant and contradictory hypotheses which have been put forth, and the little that can be relied upon in all of them which is incontrovertibly true. This, the most common of all the diseases which afflict mankind, has engaged the attention of numerous able and distinguished writers, from the time of Hippocrates to the present, and yet it must be acknowledged, that there are few material points, in reference either to its etiology or pathology, which can now be considered as settled and