A new theory of pulmonary consumption : its causes, nature, and prevention / by Francis Eagle.

  • Eagle, Francis.
Date:
1839
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Credit: A new theory of pulmonary consumption : its causes, nature, and prevention / by Francis Eagle. 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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    complicated by the addition of such elements as organic life, health, disease, with all the intricacy and complexity of their combination. The method of obtaining the above interesting knowledge is admirably expounded in the work of Hippocrates on air, water, locality, &c., and ciaromon- which has been subsequently and at different tiua, de aere, •i-n i Ti ii A • i l^u^setaquis periods illustrated on a hmited scale by Aristotle, Angiia;. Claromoutius, Lord Bacon, Boyle, Smith, Mad- den, and others, by referring the principal •changes, whether physiological or pathological, to a deviation of physical causes, air, water, soil, customs, diet, and clothing. The advantages of this knowledge would be boundless, for as the causes of the constitution and nature of things are to be found in the Temperature of the Seasons, and the latter is again dependent upon meteorological phenomena; so astronomy is the foundation of all philosophy, whether in the aerial, mineral, vegetable, animal, or morbid kingdoms. Hiiu'Ocrates If any one should think these are meteoro- da aero, &c. , , , . p , logical speculations, he may soon learn, it he can part with his opinion, that astronomy is so far from being of little use in physic, as to be of the greatest ; for with the seasons the constitutions of men likewise change. An extended view of this knowledge once ob- tained would supersede, in a considerable degree.