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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    ( *8 ) Animals are much more fecret and *■ * * unintelligible. The Prince of Phyflcians has in¬ deed let an Ocean of Light into thefe dark Regions* infinitely more than could have been ex¬ pended, unlefs the Adtion of the Nerves had been better underflood, or the ingenious Authors that have writ upon the JEther, Electricity, or Caufes of Gravitation, had given, or rather the Nature of thefe intricate Subjects admitted of, more fatisfactory Explications. Then in¬ deed we might have had more certain rational Accounts of epidemic Dikafes, the inftantaneous and mortal Effects of Steams, Damps, and Lightning. The Moon may have a very powerful Action upon our Atmo- fphere ; feveral Caufes may prevent the Subfiding of the Barometer. But if the endlefs Phenomena of - ■ this