A discourse upon the nature and cause of sudden deaths; and the reason why such numbers of people died suddenly in the years 1730 and 1731, with the most proper indications both to discover the danger, and prevent the fatal stroke from taking effect : To which is added, a dissertation upon bleeding in a fit of the apoplexy; with remarks upon the case of an illustrious person that lately dy'd abroad upon his travesl. To which is prefix'd, a preface in defence of the theory of medicine. Against the cavils and exceptions of some late writers ... / By Nicholas Robinson.

  • Nicholas Robinson
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1732
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Credit: A discourse upon the nature and cause of sudden deaths; and the reason why such numbers of people died suddenly in the years 1730 and 1731, with the most proper indications both to discover the danger, and prevent the fatal stroke from taking effect : To which is added, a dissertation upon bleeding in a fit of the apoplexy; with remarks upon the case of an illustrious person that lately dy'd abroad upon his travesl. To which is prefix'd, a preface in defence of the theory of medicine. Against the cavils and exceptions of some late writers ... / By Nicholas Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [>] Sudden Deaths were fo generally epidemical in the Years 173a, and 1731, that whoever revifes the Yearly Bills for thefe two Years; and compares them with the yearly Bills for twenty Years Backward, will perceive, that there is no Seafon, tho’ ever fo lickly, in which, the Article of fudden Deaths and Apoplexies was near fo numerous, as during that Period of Time. The Quickfilver in the Gage of the Barometer, during the Courfe of the Year 1730, generally flood at 23 £ to feldom did it afife to 29-, but very rarely to 29 \; and this was occafion’d from the moifl Vapours and dampy Rains that affe&ed both the Spring, Summer, and Autumnal Seafon of that Year;, where-- upon the Spring of the Air \vas extreme¬ ly relax’d, and confequently fitted: to produce Palfies, Apoplexies, and fudden Deaths, from a Depreffion of the vital Organs beneath the Standard of Nature. But, in the Year 1731, rarely did it fall beneath 29 and was often buoy’d up to 29, f, and fometimes to 30, and 30 s 5 and this was occafion’d from the extreme Drynefs-of the Seafon; a Drought fo univerfal as fcarce to be parallel’d in the Memory of Man, and which, in the ~ r Na- /