Philosophical conjectures on aereal influences, the probable origin of diseases: with an unusual cure in the scurvy / Address'd to Dr. Shaw, by E-m-d L-tt-n [i.e. Edmund Litton].

  • Litton, Edmund.
Date:
1747
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Credit: Philosophical conjectures on aereal influences, the probable origin of diseases: with an unusual cure in the scurvy / Address'd to Dr. Shaw, by E-m-d L-tt-n [i.e. Edmund Litton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *3 ) a fubterraneal Fire, laid wafle the greateil Part of that Country j and, palling through Europe> Afia, and Africa, made fuch difinal Havock, as. was fuppofed to have difpeopled Half the Globe. Tho’ the Situation afligned us by1 indulgent Heaven is free from the Inclemencies of Seafons, the Malig¬ nity of Elements, and mortal Poi« fcns peculiar to fome Climates; tho* we neither feel the /torching Heat of an African Soil, nor piercing Colds of a polar Region; yet we, in fome mcafurc, participate of aereai His j our Medium abounding, as. appears from the Tarnifhing and' Corrofion of Metals, with Salts of an unknown Nature, which may have a wonderful, tho’ unheeded Operation upon the nice Contexture of human Bodies. To fay, Authors and Hi— ftorians have look’d upon Infec¬ tion