A plain discourse, on the causes, symptoms, nature, and cure, of the prevailing epidemical disease, termed influenza. / By John Herdman.

  • Herdman, John, 1762?-1842.
Date:
1803
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Credit: A plain discourse, on the causes, symptoms, nature, and cure, of the prevailing epidemical disease, termed influenza. / By John Herdman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    care to return very gradually only to the ufe of the free air.” Now what is all this, but curing catarrh by heat ? by the ftimulus of heat; by op¬ posing heat to cold ; the latter of which Dr Cullen confidered as the exciting caufe of the difeafe. But he has not difclaimed his dodtrine by his pradlice alone: he has brought other grounds to difprove it. After defcribing the fymptoms of ca¬ tarrh, and their progrefs, he obferves, “ Such is generally the courfe of this dif¬ eafe, which is commonly neither tedious nor dangerous; but, upon fome occahons, it is in both refpefls otherwife. A perfon affefied with catarrh leems to be more than ufually liable to be affefted by cold air; and in that condition, if expofed to cold, the difeafe, which feemed to be yield¬ ing, is often brought back with greater violence than before, and is rendered not only more tedious than otherwife it would have been, but alfo more dangerous, by the Supervening of other difeafes. E Some