Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm : as a remedy in fever and other diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally / by James Currie.

  • James Currie
Date:
1805
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    -it for a moment, even if the uniform experi- nce of the Physicians of Liverpool were not sup-- corted by that of every other part pf the island, Ihere it can fairly be collected. Nothing, indeed, -.ems to be more firmly established, than the nar- ow sphere of even the most virulent contagions, here the air is allowed to circulate freely. Hence, in the torrid zone, where the heat of thq ttmosphere in a manner forces ventilation, the nfectious qualjty of the mosj malignant fevers is a natter of dispute among the faculty, though I ifeiievewith yourself and Dr. Wright, (the present ivorthy President of the College of Physicians at Edinburgh) that, under a similar deficiency of ventilation, they would be equally, or more infec- iious, than the fevers of our northern latitude. Dangers that cannot be calculated, are always magnified by the imagination ; and the baleful in- fluence derived to the atmosphere, from taking its -onstant course over extensive swamps of many ^thousand acres of putrefying animal and vegetable latter, has been loosely applied to the same air, lassing over a human body, for a thousandth part iJif the time, ^nd a millionth part of the surface. T^et the testimony of all actual observers, in every ifegion of the earth, is calculated to correct this lerror. Even the sphere of the contagion of the ]|)lague, the most terrible of the diseases which af- ifect the human species, seems limited to a very few
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