On the influenza as it prevailed in Bristol and its vicinity during 1803 / by John Nott.

  • Nott, John, 1751-1825.
Date:
1803
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Credit: On the influenza as it prevailed in Bristol and its vicinity during 1803 / by John Nott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    nating in particles previoufly abforbed from the air; whether arife from any animalcular fource, \ any modification of temperament of the atmo- fphere, or chemical difproportion of its conflituent • % elements, will yet exercife phyfical fpeculation. * . , The predifpofing caufes muft reft with the per- fons attacked by it: thofe, who from an irritable ftate of the Schneiderian membrane, or from ex- treme tendernefs and fufceptibility of the lungs, are moft liable to the common catarrhal cold, have been moft readily affefted. The proximate, caufes, I prefume, are thofe mor- bific miafmata, of whatever nature they may be primarily, which float in the air, and, being inhaled by the mouth and noftrils, excite the difeafe. * How far the halitus, and contaft of thofe in- fe&ed with it, can be immediate caufes, involves the queflion of contagion, which has been much controverted;