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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    ftatical Examination of the learned and ingenious Dr. Kelli, appears abfolutely erroneous : Either Perfpi- ration is not obftru&ed at all ■ or other Secretions are proportionably inlarged; or, allowing a Suppreffion, it is fuch as can produce no lignifi- cant Effedt: Confequently, in what is call’d catching of Cold, we are obliged to allow at lean as pro¬ bable, that the Air adts not by doling the excretory Duds, and flopping the tranfpiring Matter; but that certain faline, nitrous, fri- gorilic Particles alter the Quality of the Fluids* Cold, according to the 'Gaffendi- ans, may be owing to the nitrous acreal Particles, and not a bare Pri¬ vation; as Sal Ammoniac, Nitre, and feveral volatile alkaline Salts, mix’d with Water, render it more in- tenfely cold. G An