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A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead.
- Richard Mead
- Date:
- MDCCXLV [1745]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A mechanical account of poisons in several essays / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![gious, and that contagion is a real poifon : but the original caufe ^of a difeafe, and the communication of it, are very different things. Of this I have largely difcourfed oh another occafion [c] : I fhall therefore only hint here, that when a fever is communicated by way of infedtion from one already difeafed, this moft commonly happens at the latter part of the di- ftemper, that is, (as was obferved in the h'^drophobia) when the fer¬ menting blood is throwing off great quantities of its adfive parti¬ cles upon the glands of the ipoft conftant and ealy fecretions: fuch are thofe in the furface of the body and the mouth. Thefe therefore being by the air drawn into the lungs of a found perfon, and like- wife infinuating themfelves into the (f) Difcourfe on the Plague. pores](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30522572_0001_0360.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
