A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce.

  • William Fordyce
Date:
1777
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Credit: A new inquiry into the causes, symptoms, and cure, of putrid and inflammatory fevers : with an appendix on the hectic fever, and on the ulcerated and malignant sore throat. ... / By William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sea. 12.] IN CL OATH IN G. 3; Though it is a difputed point/ whether Hippo¬ crates was acquainted with what is now called the San&orian Perfpiration; yet he had obferved the Lad effedts of Thin Cloathing, and cautions men to guard againft the approaching cold of autumn, • i>y a warmer habit. Celfus gives the fame ^ood ;counfel. The Dutch have learned, that warm cloathing ^lone makes their country habitable. The neceffity .of this doctrine’s being underftood by the fubjedU of the Britifh empire in every part of the globe, is really become fo ferious, as to require the ftrongeft arguments to enforce it; for they have never yet paid it the lead: attention.! Having ferved three campaigns in the Britifh army, and belonged to it for many years, my zeal for its welfare will plead my apology for offering a hint with regard to the very inefficient cloathing .of the greater part of our troops. I have feen above half their number rendered unfit for fervice, before the campaign was nearly over, by D 3 the * See Archbiftrop Seeker’s Thefis on Perfpiration. f Did the natives of Great Britain and Ireland, whofe occa* calio/is carry them to our Weft-India fettlements, wear fhort cloth waiftcoats, made like thofe of the huftars, it would in that cafe be of little confequence, whether they had filk or calico upper coats, or none. Such an expedient would be a better fecurity againft the fatal effects of that climate, to northern Europeans, than any method hitherto pradtifed. I Jiave known two or three young men return from Jamaica, who, having never quitted their cloth waiftcoats there, never fuffered from its difeafes.