A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When a part of the body only has been expofed to the adtion of cold, and the reft kept heated; if, for in- ftance, a perfon in a warm room fits fo that a current of air coming through a broken pane, lhould fall upon any part of the body, that part will be foon affedted with an inflammation, which is ufually called a rheumatic inflammation. From what has been faid, it will be eafy to account for this circumftance. The excitability of the part is ac- cumulated by the diminution of its heat; but at the fame time, the reft G