Physical enquiries: discovering the mode of translation in the constitution of northern inhabitants, on going to, and for some time after arriving in southern climates ... Dr. Ward's qualifications for the practice of physic ... Illustrated with remarks upon a printed letter to a member of Parliament, signed Philanthropos / [John Tennent].

  • John Tennent
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1742
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Credit: Physical enquiries: discovering the mode of translation in the constitution of northern inhabitants, on going to, and for some time after arriving in southern climates ... Dr. Ward's qualifications for the practice of physic ... Illustrated with remarks upon a printed letter to a member of Parliament, signed Philanthropos / [John Tennent]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Phyfical Enquiries. SECT. I. fbe Effett of Vinegar, or any Acids, upon the human Body clearly demonflrated, on going into Southern from Northern Climates, and ' for fome time after arriving there. This Subject is here Jet in a more full and clear Light,than in a fmallBookpublijhedlaJi Tear, entitled A Reprieve from Death, on occa- fion that Vinegar was recommended by the College of Phyficians, to the Britifh Fleet fent to the Weft-Indies; tho it is humbly thought that the Arguments, as fated in the Jaid Book, are unanjwerable : 'Jo tins Sec- tion is annexed a Method to prevent the mor~ ( tal Fever in the Weft-Indies, for the Benefit of thofethatgo therefrom Northern Climates, deduc d from the Reafons ajjigned for its Pro- duSion; and how to cure it when it invades without the Precautions taken, or if it fhould attack fome Confutations notwitkjlanding all Pre cautions to prevent it. IT is very obfervable that Northern People are ftrooger, and have more florid Com¬ plexions than thofe of Southern Climates •, A which
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