An experimental enquiry concerning the causes which have generally been said to produce putrid diseases / By William Alexander.

  • Alexander, William, -1783.
Date:
1771
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Credit: An experimental enquiry concerning the causes which have generally been said to produce putrid diseases / By William Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 5,] malcula, being every where diffemi- nated, and hatched upon fuch bodies as afforded them a proper nidus, by gnawiftg and deftroying the texture of thefe bodies, were the foie caufe of their running into a putrid flate. A late ingenious author^ fuppofes he has difcovered a more natural and eafy folution of the modus of putre- faflion, by confidering it as arifing from the lofs of a cementing prin- ^ ciple, by which the various parts of | any^ body adhere together, and by which adhefion, he imagines, they are preferved in their natural flate, and defended from putrefadlion. As failors in long voyages have frequently been attacked with that fpecies of putrid diftemper called the fea fcurvy, the falted, and perhaps da¬ maged and mouldy provifions upon which they are obliged to fubfift, have likewife been much blamed as the caufes of putrefaction. And fo much have philofophers in all ages been ^ Dr. Mac Bride. Bs puzzled