"The following sheets contain the results of the author's experience in the treatment of several thousand cases of fever, which fell under his immediate care whilst physician to the Hardwicke fever hospital in Dublin. A considerable portion of his late Medical report of that hospital, for the years 1813, 1814, and 1815, which was published by the 'Association of members of the College of physicians in Ireland' is embodied in the present work, having been carefully revised" - p. [vii]