A sermon preached at the Church in Brattle-Street, Boston Thursday, September 27, 1798. A day religiously observed on account of the epidemic now prevailing in this town, and several other seaports in America / By John Lathrop. Printed by the desire of many who heard it.

  • John Lathrop
Date:
1798
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Credit: A sermon preached at the Church in Brattle-Street, Boston Thursday, September 27, 1798. A day religiously observed on account of the epidemic now prevailing in this town, and several other seaports in America / By John Lathrop. Printed by the desire of many who heard it. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ig Tue refearches of the philofophers and chemifts of the prefeng Bey Twill fidip TB, perhaps, to an anf{wer. Nearxy three. quarters of.‘*-the. elaftic. fluids © which compofe the inferior {lratum of air which * we inhabit,’’* are noxious,& incapable of fupport~ ing life, Te is by the’ prefence of the other quar— “ter,that: ra and’ life are 'ielerved. als THE acl or life- acne part of the air, in ‘the modern language of chemifts, is called Oxygen > the other parts, azote. eoewe win ke THE azofe, or‘ mephitic part of atmofpheric air,” confifts of vapours from mud, marthes, flag nant waters,: fermenting and putrefying fubftances of all kinds ; together with the air which has fuf- fered the defiruction of its: vita] part by pafling the lungs ofall the living creatures, and by fupporting aallthe fires which ace ira in wall se mane of. the world. | A redundancy, of the:non-refpirable part of air now mentioned, may be‘a/caufe fufficient to produce peflilential diforders of the worft’ kind. vn + Dstgotip Lonc ~* Lavoifier ; ~ 4 Elements of Chemiftr Fourcioy } a i her