Note 529 — ON REGIMEN IN ACUTE DISEASES.

One mode of exercise, namely, gestation, is to be excepted, which had at least one distinguished advocate in ancient times. Celsus writing of it says, “Asclepiades etiam in recenti vehementique, præcipueque ardente febre, ad discutiendam eam, gestatione dixit utendum: sed id pericolose fit; meliusque quiete ejusmodi impetus sustinetur.” (ii., 15.) A great modern authority on fever, Dr. R. Jackson, speaks favorably of this practice, although, as we see, it is so pointedly condemned by Celsus. Celsus, however, admits of gestation in that species of remittent fever which was called lethargus. (iii., 20.)