Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood].
- Wood, Loftus
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ '9 ] already mentioned ; the narrow limits of this ' performance will not permit me to enter largely into an inveftigation or chemical analization of the properties of air in general; I lhall only confine myfelf to the medical part of this enqui^ ry, in hopes of perfuading the faculty that this fubje^f is worthy of their further confiderations. In refpiration, the air not only expands the lungs that the circulation may be properly car- ried on, but fupplies the blood with heat, and carries off its fuperabundant phlogifton, as is lately explained by the ingenius Dr. Crawford^ ill his enquiries on animal heat. An animal confined in a fmall clofe place foon expires by often breathing the fame air, which becomes faturated with fuch a quantity of phlogifton, as to be unfit for refpi- ration ; therefore pure air is effential to life. The peripneumonia and phthifis pulmonalis, generally commence with an inflammation of the lungs : Qmcknefs of breathing, heat, and a foulnefs of the breath, are concomitant fymp- toms of this ftage of the diforder, which are efforts of nature to expel the morbific matter, or redundant quantity of phlogifton, which is B 2 predo^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28759114_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
