The scriptural code of health, with observations on the Mosaic prohibitions, and on the principles and benefits of the medicated vapour bath / By Charles Whitlaw.
- Charles Whitlaw
- Date:
- 1838
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The scriptural code of health, with observations on the Mosaic prohibitions, and on the principles and benefits of the medicated vapour bath / By Charles Whitlaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![contribute greatly to the formation of the various tumours and fevers so destructive to animal life. Linnzus has also published 118 genera, and upwards of 6,000 species of worms equally destructive. I suspect that the term botch of Egypt was applied to all glandular and malignant tumours, The emerods, were the piles, which were produced by the corrupt state of the soil, and the acrid quality of the fruit, grain, and grass, which is heightened by the attacks of insects. The continuance of such food so far from contributing to heal] the disorder, only increased its virulence. This terrible disease is now scourging the inhabitants of this country as well as America, which I find no difficulty in curing when I can procure wholesome food. ‘ And with the scab,” which applies to animals fed from bad soil, and from the use of these products communicated to the human species. ** And with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.” The two last-mentioned diseases are both produced from the same cause, viz. insects, which Dr. Willan supposes to belong to the genus Pulex, in consequence of its jumping motion. He calls the disorder prurigo, and the species mitis, forni- cans, and senilis. Mason Good has described the three varieties, and laboured hard to account for the disorder independant of insects; he has completely failed, his doc- trine being if unison with the absurd notions of the schools, treating of effects without a cause. He has, notwith- standing, described in another part of his work, many insects which are found within the living body. ‘* Some of them,” he says, ‘‘ grow to such an enormous size and with such altered characters from rioting on so plentiful a supply of Juices, that it is by no means easy to recognize them.” ‘This is a complete confirmation of the Linnzan doctrine. As to the creative process, he observes, “ in many cases the second variety, and still more of the third of this pertinacious and distressing complaint, bids defiance to all the forms of medi- cine or the ingenuity of man.” ‘The French had this disorder, particularly in Paris in the years 1828-29-30 and 31. The doctors say the disorder run itself out, as nearly all the patients affected with it fell vic- tims to the dreadful scourge, and to the effects of the poisons given for their alleviation and cure. The disorder was known](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297734_0081.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
