Prophylaxis, or, the mode of preventing disease, by a due appreciation of the grand elements of vitality, light, air, and water : with observations on intramural burials / by Edward Bascome.

  • Bascome, Edward.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Prophylaxis, or, the mode of preventing disease, by a due appreciation of the grand elements of vitality, light, air, and water : with observations on intramural burials / by Edward Bascome. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROPHYLAXIS, &c. XlXeiri fiEV yap yaia Katciov nXeir] (He SfaXaaaa Novaoi avdpijJTTOiGLV £(f f][A£pw r)(? eiri wktl AvrofxaroL (poirwcn. “ The earth’s full of maladies, and full the sea, Which set upon us both by night and day.” Hesiod. It would appear as far as human knowledge extends, that all organised bodies, from a variety of causes as dissimilar as they are complicated and numerous, are more or less suscep- tible of change and decay. Thus we see disease assail and carry off mankind at all times and in all regions; murrain de- structive of dumb animals, while blight spares not the vege- table kingdom, from the sturdiest oak, to the most diminutive herbage ; in fine, all nature is subjected in various degrees to the devastating tendency of the elements, in their general evolutions in the mundine economy, based on immutable laws arising from original and Supreme provision. The grand phenomena of nature exhibited in the commo- tions of the physical world, supplying materials for the expli- cation of all diseases, we, without searching after mysterious agencies, and neglecting those which nature is constantly presenting to our view, can assign all maladies to natural causes. In attributing disease to natural causes, it must not be supposed, however, that any one of these, as heat, cold, mois- ture, or drought alone will be sufficient to induce it. To excite disease there must be a combination of causes varying in intensity or degree. The causes of disease are distinguished as the exciting and