I cannot allow this work to go forth to the world, without expressing my obligation to Dr. DILL, for the great assistance he has afforded me in the collection and arrangement of the cases which illustrate the symptoms and the pathology, and in the construction of the tables. And I am happy to avail myself of this occasion to bear my testimony to the excellent history which is drawn up of every case admitted into the house; to the completeness of the record which is kept of the morbid appearances on inspection; to the care which is taken of the sick, in the absence of the physicians; and to the able and zealous manner in which, as the resident medical officer of the Fever Hospital, he performs the arduous duties of his office. _S. S._ _36, New Broad Street Dec. 1829._ CONTENTS. Page. DEDICATION i. PREFACE iii. CHAPTER I. Further Investigation of Fever necessary 1 Facilities afforded by the Fever Hospital for prosecuting the Study 5 Antient Doctrines relative to the Nature and Seat of Fever 7 Hippocrates, Galen, Sydenham 8 Modern Doctrines relative to the Nature and Seat of Fever 13 Cullen, Brown, Stoker, Burne, Clanny, Clutterbuck, Broussais 14 Errors common to all these Theorists 30 Questions to be solved before Fever can be understood 33 Precise Object of Investigation 34 Proper Mode of conducting it 36 CHAPTER II. Varieties of Fever 41 Common Phenomena 42 Importance of analyzing the Assemblage of the Symptoms, in order to ascertain the Common Phenomena 43 Results of the Analysis 45 Organs always diseased in Fever 48 Functions always deranged in Fever 49 Fever not Inflammation 50 Distinction between Fever and Inflammation 52 Common Phenomena of Fever exemplified in Plague 53 in Yellow Fever, 54 in the Varieties of Fever of Great Britain 54 Different Varieties produced by different Intensities 58