Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair].

  • James Makittrick Adair
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[1790?]
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Credit: Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 23 ] CHAP. II. Effects of Noxious Air. Hr1 HIS term, when applied to air, im- ^ plies, that it is injurious to animal life. The mafs of air which furrounds this globe to a confiderable height, and which is called the atmofphere, feems to be a com- pound of pure air blended with a very large proportion of exhalations from animals, ve- getables, minerals, and metals, a confiderable portion of which probably confifts of fixible, inflammable, and other fadlitious airs, and electric fire ; and therefore muft be more or lefs impure in proportion to the nature and degree of thefe exhalations. As we are conffantly and necelTarily re- ceiving a column of this air into our lungs, for the fupport of life, it is of confiderable importance that it fhould be as free from impurity as poffible, (for impure it always is in fome degree) becaufe, when highly con- taminated, it is fatal; as is evident from the effedls of burning charcoal, experiments with the air-pump, &c. The
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