Note 105 — CHAP. I.

I have been very cautious of admitting any theory into this work; but I cannot help adopting the doctrine of my much-valued master, Dr. Cullen, on this point, viz. that a great part of the symptoms of fever arise from reaction, or that effort which nature makes to overcome the morbid cause. I am happy in any opportunity of acknowledging my obligations to this learned professor, to whom the medical world in general is so much indebted, as well for the rational views of the animal œconomy, which he teaches, as for that spirit of study and inquiry which he infuses into the minds of his pupils.