An essay on the effects of carbonate of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that disease / by Richard Carmichael.

Richard Carmichael

Date:: 1806

Credit: An essay on the effects of carbonate of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that disease / by Richard Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$productive of diseases similar to those of Ani- mals depending oa the same causes* The facts in Doctor Gahagan's Essay, have been lately more extensively considered by Doctor Darwin, in his Phytologia. But the dis- orders of Plants and Animals in no instance bear a more striking resemblance than in the effects consequent to the depredations o^Para- sites ; which although perhaps shewing scarcely any characteristick of life, produce in each of those great classes, diseases of a most incurable nature: thus fungi of various descriptions, have been observed to destroy the Plants by which they are nourished, a few examples, of which are given by Linnaeus in his Philosophia Bota- nica j as the Erysiphe or mildew, which pene- trates with its roots the vessels of the Humulus, the Acer and the Lithospermum, but which vessels Darwin supposes are previously injured hy internal disease'\—he also takes notice of the Rubigo and Clavus, Fungi destructive to Corn * See au account of Doctor Gahagan's observations on the irritability of vegetables. Duncan's Med. Comment, for the^ear 1739, p. 379, t Phytologia, p. 32]. G 2 and$