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.

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    matter has ceased to exercise that prophylactic ^ee the power over small-pox which it formerly pos-tue vacdne ■I ^ Board to tin sessed, and yet you hesitate to place yourselves |e^cretaryoi in that condition in which such immunity then ^^^^ consisted, and still consists! Is it possible that the truth of this proposition can be much longer disputed ? I believe not. In a brief commentary on the statistical re- port of Captain Tulloch, it has been submitted that the principal cause of the great mortality amongst European troops in tropical climates (from yellow fever especially) is their persistence in European diet and stimulating drinks; for not only do nations suffer in proportion to their high diet, but, even amongst individuals of the same nation, the most abstemious enjoy the greatest immunity from disease; and this view is further strengthened in the following pages by the testimony of Mosely, of Madden, of Copland, and others. In the following pages, in the Philosophical Remarks, and also in the theory of Consumption, it will at once appear that both are but the nuclei for further matter. The millepedes of ancient authors, the digi- talis and oxygen gas of Dr. Beddoes, the uva ursi of Dr. Bourne, the tar vapour of Sir A. Crichton, the inhalation of St. John Long, Sir Charles Scudamore, and Dr. Ramadge,