Philosophical, medical, and experimental essays ... To which is added an appendix; containing a letter to the author from Dr. Saunders, on the solution of human calculi / [Thomas Percival].

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804
Date:
1776
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Credit: Philosophical, medical, and experimental essays ... To which is added an appendix; containing a letter to the author from Dr. Saunders, on the solution of human calculi / [Thomas Percival]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dent. The Ulcerous Sore Throat, which prevailed here in the year 1770, is the only epidemic which has appeared in Manchefter with any fatal degree of vio¬ lence, for many years. Miliary Fevers, which were formerly frequent in this town and neighbourhood, now rarely occur 5 and if I may judge from my own experience, the natural Small Pox (for Inoculation is not much praililed here) carries off a much fmaller proportion of thofe who are attacked by it, than is commonly fuppofed. Puerperal difeafes alfo decreafe every year amongft us, by the judicious method of treating women in child-bed : and as nature is now more confulted in the management of infants, it is reafonable to fuppofe that this muff be favourable to their health and prefer- vation. But it muft be acknowledged that large towns are injurious to population; and the advantages I have enumerated, which