Volume 1
The history of epidemics. In seven books / [Hippocrates] ; translated into English from the Greek, with notes and observations, and a preliminary dissertation on the nature and cause of infection, by Samuel Farr.
- Epidemics
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of epidemics. In seven books / [Hippocrates] ; translated into English from the Greek, with notes and observations, and a preliminary dissertation on the nature and cause of infection, by Samuel Farr. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![does not prevail, and only a fudden blaft fweeps over the ground and deftroys all the μυς, and animals which it finds within τί courfe?’ (7) It has been remarked likewife that ‘thofe people who have been killed by lightning, as well as cattle,” ‘have been fubjett’ almoft’ ae to putrefaction. ο] From the concurrence of all thefe’ εἴτεαπῃ- flances, may we not conjecture that the fame caufe may be the origin of both thefe effets’ Άβα ας a quantity of phlogifton is acknowledged in’ one cafe, as it hath a great fhare, tho” by a different modification, in occafioning factitious air,’ and as it is by no means inadequate to the effect we would with to afcribe to it; it feems probable that we are not far from the truth in this fur- mife. It only remains to be confidered what fubftance can have this effe&: upon the air: and from the conftant folution of air in Watery, from the difficulty with which phlogifton is combined with iin the factitious noxious airs, and from the eafe with which acids of all kinds are joined with it, nay the greedinefs with which they are attracted](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33518683_0001_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
