Hints for improving the art of restoring suspended animation, also for administering dephlogisticated air in certain diseases, and particularly in the present epidemic, termed influenza, proposed (in a letter to Dr. Hawes) / by A. Fothergill.

  • Fothergill, A.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Hints for improving the art of restoring suspended animation, also for administering dephlogisticated air in certain diseases, and particularly in the present epidemic, termed influenza, proposed (in a letter to Dr. Hawes) / by A. Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    '( 3* ) . V.' ■ - -'i than common air, and even meliorates the latter when contaminated, fo as to render it again pure, and refpirable. Therefore, might not an apparatus be readily con- trived for impregnating, at pleafure, the impure air of a}l crowded Affemblies, as Courts of Judicature, Hofpitals, and Pri- fons, with this falutary Corrector, and thereby rendering them manfions of health, inftead of being (as they too commonly are) receptacles of contagion 2 Secondlyy As a Remedy, Its antifeptic and exhilarating quality, joined to its extreme purity, promife the moft beneficial effects, both as a prophy- lactic, and as a remedy in all difeafes which proceed from noxious miafmata, animal ef- fluvia, or putridity, as the peftilence, ma- lignant fevers, putrid fore throat, marine feurvy, See. Par-