Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair].

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
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[1790?]
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Credit: Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Though all bodies in nature are not fuf- ceptible of flame, yet all are of heat, in various degrees, generally in proportion to their denfity. The effedts of heat on animal bodies are in proportion to its degree, and perhaps of fome other circumflances not yet well afcer- tained. In a moderate degree it creates an agreeable fenfation in the parts with which it comes in contadt, quickens the circulation of the blood, and increafes the feniibility of the body. In a degree equal to, or above the heat of the body, it fir ft excites and in- creafes the powers of the circulation ; but ■ultimately weakens and deprefles them : Hence it is that bakers, blackfmiths, manu- facturers of glafs, &c. are opprefled and eventually much weakened, by the heat of their furnaces, &c. and we know that excefs of heat alone produces dangeious and often fatal fevers j and that, when the impreftions of cold immediately fucceed thofe of heat, a variety of difeafes are produced, according to the degrees of each, and other circumftances. This fubjedt will be confidered more fully in the next chapter. E 2 CHAP,