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. Liverpool: 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.