The laboratory; or, School of arts : containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders ... / Compiled originally by G. Smith.

  • Smith, Godfrey, active 18th century
Date:
1799
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Credit: The laboratory; or, School of arts : containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders ... / Compiled originally by G. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TYPHOUS FEVER Typhus is a word of Greek derivation, which signifies smothered fire^ or stupor. As applied to disease, it is doubtful whether it was originally meant to indicate internal heat, or whether it was used to denote a fever par- ticularly affecting the mind, and producing stupor and coma. With regard to the history of this disease, we have no account of its first appearance; on the contrary, it is always spoken of by the older writers as an affection well known. And from the additional circumstance of its having received its name from the Greek phy- sicians, it is probable that it has occasionally afflicted mankind from time immemorial. From the descriptions given of it by Euro- pean writers, there cannot be a doubt but that the disease called Typhous Fever in B Derivation and meaning of the word Typhus. Its early his- tory. Has the same name in Eu- rope and America.
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