Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1144

JAMES CURRIE (1756-1805) Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever, and febrile diseases. Printed by J. M'Creery, for Cadell and Davis 1797 x, vii, 252, 45 pp. 22.6 cm.

Currie left his native Scotland for Virginia in 1771 but later returned to Britain where he became a political activist and abolitionist while maintaining a sizable medical practice in Liverpool. An early advocate of hydrotherapy, Currie was the first to use cold seawater baths to lower elevated body temperatures in typhoid fever.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1988; Osler 2408 (1798-1805 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 420

Gift of John Martin, M.D.