On the rot in sheep / By Edward Harrison.

  • Harrison, Edward, 1759-1838
Date:
1803
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Credit: On the rot in sheep / By Edward Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 3? '] sudden in their effects, of which proofs may be found in the history of every contagious dis¬ order. We have therefore no reason to be sur- prized that sheep and other animals are so immediately affected by pasturing in moist places where these effluvia are copiously pro¬ duced in hot weather; other causes operate slowly, and require such a long continued ap¬ plication, that I do not think the rot can be in¬ duced by them, though 1 am of opinion that by occasioning general weakness, they make the constitution more susceptible and lay it open to morbid impressions. In the human body we know that fatigue, cold, fasting, and other de¬ bilitating causes, are efficacious auxiliaries, al¬ though of themselves they are totally inadequate to produce any contagious disorders. They therefore seem to contribute equally and in the same manner to facilitate the operation of marsh miasmata upon the human body and other ani¬ mals. PREVENTION OF THE ROT. It is confirmed by experience, that whenever any place is judiciously drained, it ceases to oc¬ casion the rot*. For my own part I am ac~ * See Letters, Sec. selected from the Bath and West of England Society, vol. i. p. 341. /
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