A critical inquiry into the pathology of scrofula, in which the origin of that disease is accounted for on new principles; and a new and much improved method is recommended and explained for the treatment.

  • Henning, George.
Date:
1815
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A critical inquiry into the pathology of scrofula, in which the origin of that disease is accounted for on new principles; and a new and much improved method is recommended and explained for the treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    96/256 page 96
    of animal and vegetable matter, it cannot but be suspected to have other noxious effluvia in combi- nation with it, which can hardly fail to render it very prejudicial to the general health of those who reside where it most abounds. Hence perhaps it is, especially during the au- tumnal months, when the intense heat of the sun by consuming* the waters on the surface of such marshes destroys the animal and vegetable sub- stances which exist there, giving them a greater proneness to putrefaction, and causing at the same time an increased exhalation from the soil, that the air in the vicinity of such places is so noxious to the natives. That to this cause it was owing, that the air of the Campagna di Roma was so insalubrious, or rather pestilential, is proved by the fact, that the diseases endemic there dimi- nished in proportion to the draining and cultiva- tion of the soil, and returned with the neglect of agriculture. The same ill cpiality of the air is found to exist over all the marsh country intermediate to Genoa and Naples at least. This fact is entitled to the greater attention, as it is on the lofty hills adja- cent to them, that scrofulous affections are so prevalent as to be almost universal. It is how-v ever a very probable supposition, that hydrogen gas, before it attains the summit of those mountains.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3