A medical commentary on fixed air ... / [Matthew Dobson].

  • Dobson, Matthew, -1784.
Date:
1779
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / [Matthew Dobson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. Fire and fmoke have like wife been found powerful correftors of putrid effluvia^ and of the infectious miafmata which excite putrid fevers. The accu¬ rate and judicious Dr. Lind fays, “ I feldom or ever knew a proper applica- cation of fire and fmoke to be unfuc- cefsful in producing the happy con- fequence of effectually purifying all tainted places, materials and fubftances.3’ (f) In another place he fays, <c a pro¬ per application of fire and fmoke, is the true means appropriated for the deftruc- tion and utter extinction of the moll malignant fources of difeafe. They are befides the greateft purifiers of all bad and tainted air.” (g) Thefe however are to be conlidered rather as artificial than natural means of correcting putrid ef¬ fluvia , and to do it effectually, the heat and fmoke of the burning mate- (f) Two papers on fevers and infe&ion, p. 44. (g) Ibid. p. 49, • rials.