Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases, and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes : and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy / by T. Forster.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases, and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes : and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy / by T. Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER L A GENERAL STATEMENT OF FACTS, TENDING TO PROVE THE ATMOSPHERICAL CAUSE OF EPIDEMICS.—Page 1. § 1. Health is perpetually influenced by atmospherical causes.— 2. The health of other animals is affected by atmospherical causes.— 3. Peculiarities of the atmosphere affect the life of plants. 4. The atmospherical influence seems in many cases to be obviously periodical.— 5. Nature exhibits herself in periodical phenomena.—6. The periods of many diseases are the result of one another.—!. There is, in many diseases, a diurnal periodicity of symptoms which, from analogy, we might suppose to be atmospherical—The atmospherical influence is overlooked, from the obscure manner of operation on the animal system.— 9. The monthly periods of irritability should be attended to.—\0. De- lusion produced by the imperfection of terms. Necessity of discovering the true causes of disease.-ll. Contagious diseases differ essentially from epidemics, but both are influenced by atmospherical cause. Necessity for discrimination. Opinion of Hippocrates.—Vag^ 29. CHAPTER II. ATMOSPHERICAL INFLUENCE OF HEALTH ILLUSTRATED BY THE HISTORY OF PARTICULAR DISEASES, AND THE EFFECTS OF CHANGE OF AIR.—Page 33. § 1. Object of the present chapter illustrated by cases of the doctrine laid down in the last.-2. Plague and other pestilential fevers known to originate in atmospherical causes, and hence resist remedies.- 3. ^irfavours varieties of practice, by merging the effects of opposite remedies in its own greater curative power.-4. Intermittents and other