Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1023

GEORGE FORDYCE (1736-1802) A second dissertation on fever, containing the history and method of treatment of a regular tertian intermittent. Printed for J. Johnson 1795 156 pp. 20.2 cm.

After studying under Albinus and Cullen, Fordyce lectured on medicine and chemistry at St. Thomas' Hospital in London for almost thirty years. He confirmed Lavoisier's views against the phlogiston theory and, using himself as a subject, demonstrated that human beings maintain a constant body temperature at elevated external temperatures. This is the second of his five works on fever published between 1794 and 1803.

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Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 41