An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton].

  • Buxton, Charles, 1768-1833.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (ime ) that, when applied to the human body, do certainly prog: duce difeafes of particular kinds and violence. Thus, . the effects of marth eMluvia in producing intermitting fevers; putrid effluvia from animal matters, as the caufe of low fevers; the breath of perfons labouring under. fmall-pox, or the perfpirable matter furrounding their bodies inducing the variolus fever: In fhort, we might go on almoft without end in enumerating iniances; PROXIMATE CAUSE, UNDER this head, we find the opinions of medical: gentlemen much divided ; however, from facts which in: the courfe of our Differtation we mean to advance, it is: hoped, that the proximate caufe of the meafles will be demonftrated to exift in the blood, Some fuppofe the; proximate caufe to be in the contagion; others, that of a particular diathefis; and fome, that of a ferment. That the fluids of the body become affimilated by this: ferment, is proved from inoculation in this difeafe, with a greater degree of certainty than in that of the {mall- pox.* If this is true, as it evidently appears from Door Home’s ingenious and ufeful experiments, the fanciful theory of Doctor MiLMAw, on the non-exift- ence of difeafes in the blood, muft fall to the ground, and the wifionary hypothefes, as he is pleafed to call them by way of ridicule, in many inftances will not only exift, but continue found theories ;+ and the vitiated or difeafed “ftate * Vide Home’s Medical Faéts. > Preface to Mizman on Scurvy, °