Exposition of elementary principles specially concerned in the preservation of healthiness, and production of distempers amongst mariners, travellers and adventives in tropical, variable, and unkindly climates, with miscellaneous illustrations of prophylactical administration / by Andrew Simpson.

  • Simpson Andrew.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Exposition of elementary principles specially concerned in the preservation of healthiness, and production of distempers amongst mariners, travellers and adventives in tropical, variable, and unkindly climates, with miscellaneous illustrations of prophylactical administration / by Andrew Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which are influentially transmitted through the at- mospliere. An extensive proportion of even those diseases which are generally considered as contagi- ous, or capable of producing in others successively similar affections by contact, is susceptible of inter- ception, &c. by increase of distance or by separation. Some diseases, again, which may be transferred and communicated by the atmosphere, or by immediate contiguity or mechanical contact, may, likeways, be oftentimes interrupted in their progressive dissipa- tion, by the intervention of even a very inconsider- able degree of remoteness. The plague, which by common consent is deemed the most poisonous and dangerous of all diseases, may be eluded by moder- ate distance; and while it operates in one part of a ship or house, those occupying another apartment, and especially if their station is to windward of the ])lace of mischief, will often escape the peculiar in- lluence of this direful malady. This conclusion is also applicable to common febrile ailment, when it hath, under an unpropitious particularity of circum- stances, assumed the power of conveying and im- parting itself to those in immediate exposition. xc. In the ordinary exposure of all sliips, whe- ther of a mercantile or of a belligerent disposition, no complaint of a communicable description can ever occur, so as to excite much dread or distress. Tlie common disorders of the variable and passing sea- sons, may occasionally be observeable in any cli- mate of the habitable surface. Such disorders are depending upon causes which originate from prin- ciples generally operating, and which must com- monly maintain an uniformity, which will continue as long as the relations of the causes and effects oc-