A treatise concerning the influence of the sun and moon upon human bodies, and the diseases thereby produced / by Richard Mead ... ; Translated from the Latin, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack.

  • Richard Mead
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1748
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Credit: A treatise concerning the influence of the sun and moon upon human bodies, and the diseases thereby produced / by Richard Mead ... ; Translated from the Latin, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The ancients made great account of critical days, and regulated their pradice in fevers according to the expedation they had from, them. This part of phylic is grown now into difufe, quite flighted, and even ridiculed ; and that I fuppofe chiefly for thefe two reafons. For in the flrft place, the earliefl: obfervations of this kind, which were drawn into rules, being made in hot eaftern coun¬ tries ; when thefe came to be ap¬ plied to the diftempers of the colder northern region^, without allowance given for the dilference of the climate, they were often¬ times found not to anfwer. And lecondly, fevers of old 'were treated V’ith few medicines, and chiefly managed by very flender diet: the motions of nature were carefullv J watched, and no violence offered to interrupt her work. The hifto- 3 ries
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