An inaugural dissertation on the influenza / [Robert Johnston].

  • Johnston, Robert
Date:
1793
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the influenza / [Robert Johnston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f< stz0 fl ‘cious quality’? of it confpires.with, and ‘greatly ,afitts the efluvia iffuing from the fick, to encreafe the malignan- cy of this pifberspen of of she Predifpetin o« Caufe. The venerable Galen judicioufly remarks, cc that 20 cdufe can affecd without a predi/pofition of the body(20) > otherwife all who are expofed to the rays ‘of a fummer fun would be feized with fever s, as well as thofe who ufe too much exercife, are paffionate, or grieved. “Mor e- _over, all would fall fick during the dog- days, or die of ‘the plague.” This is a circumftance which requires very ‘little proof to be admitted as true, the obfervation of eve- ry body fupplying innumerable facts j in its fupport. a dhall therefore adduce but a few, nor fhould thefe be mnention- ed, but to combat the only argument of any importance which has been advanced againft the idea of the’ rémote caufe of the, influenza ref fin 1g in the air. | Baron De Tott, apbeppaitinie PORES Us, that the . plague, which that year carried ‘of a hundr ed and fifty thoufand perfons, in Conftantinople, Awas ~ ‘then at “its height. Obliged (fays he) to dire& the workmen. my felf, many of whom were attacked by the diftemper, di had nothing to pr eferve me from it, but the falubrious fmell of the forges, and the precaution of giving “directions with the end of my cane. But, perhaps, what ntoft pre- ferved me from the infection was my never giving myfelf up to fear, and the ae. ideas of its ravages * ek cy J _,. (20) Nan a note * Do. Stor Rotherham i in Cullen’s Firft Res; Vol. I, Page 52. -“ The predifpoli ing is that which renders the body liable or capable of being aifected by difeafe when the ex- citing caufe is applied.”’ (21) Volume the fecond, Page the 83.
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