Animal simples, approved for modern uses of cure / by W.T. Fernie.

  • Fernie, William Thomas, 1830-
Date:
1899
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Credit: Animal simples, approved for modern uses of cure / by W.T. Fernie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Ptiiiks and disease. Oils and fatty fluids, on the contrary, absorb only fragrant ingredients from the air, or the body, and do not evaporate from woollen clothing. But lineti habiliments wet with perspiration or rain, have retained the noxious odours of the hody, which are re-absorbed ; furthermore, they dry slowly and cause chills b}^ evaporation. To carry out the Jaeger system the entire clothing must be woollen alone, any outer garments made wholly or partiall}?- of vegetable fibre will stultify the main principle. Camel-hair wool is specially commended because of its musk-like odour and its soothing qualities. It does excellent service, says Dr. Jaeger, in cases of rheumatic and nervous complaints, neuralgia, toothache, headache, and earache. The Arabs look with contem})t on our flannel clothing, standing up stouth^ for that of camel-hair. All wool, and a yard wide, is a Yankee simile for thorough-going genuineness. Wool-sorters are particular!}' liable to what is known as splenic fever (or a general blood-poisoning, often fatal), from their contact with the wool of animals which have died from such disease; likewise from inhaling the infectious wool-dust. This malady was first noticed in the Bradford worsted district after the introduction of alpaca, and mohair, as textile materials, in 1857. Its attacks are due to the highly contagious microscojoic germ of anthrax, as discovered by Pollender, in 1849. Strict disinfection of the wool and hides imported into this countrj' must therefore be held imperative. WORMS. Eauth-wurms (Luiiihiiri fcrrcstrcH) include the i.ob or IJew-worm, the Cocks])ur, and the Kingtailed l)randling.