An experimental enquiry concerning the causes which have generally been said to produce putrid diseases / By William Alexander.

  • William Alexander
Date:
1771
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Credit: An experimental enquiry concerning the causes which have generally been said to produce putrid diseases / By William Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ' [ 232 ■] n much flronger antifeptic power than that extrafted from others; ac¬ cording to which, it has been obferv- ed, that lirice fugar and the cafcefcent vegetables became apart of the diet of the people in this country, putrid dif- eafes have been much lefs frequent than formerly, when our forefathers lived upon grain and flefli, without a proper mixture of acids to correct their tendency towards putrefadlion. There may be, and undoubtedly are, a number of other fubordinate caufes, which co-operate wdth thefe two alrea¬ dy mentioned, in retarding the ten¬ dency of animals towards a putrid date. But as their power is, I prefume, much more limited, I lhall pafs over them in filence, and only at prefent take notice of the efiefts of want of motion, and of antifeptic food, which, I am per- fiiaded, will be found of themfelves adequate to the prodiicdion of putre- faftion, without the exiftence of pu-^ trid miafmata, or any other caufe whatever exiftiog out of the body. Neither