Volume 1

Essays medical, philosophical, and experimental / [Thomas Percival].

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.
Date:
1788-1789
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Essays medical, philosophical, and experimental / [Thomas Percival]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    522/540 (page 496)
    499 LETTER FROM, &c. habitantes, maligno morbo adjeéti et mortui Sunt. Hoffman likewife tells us, in the fame feétion, that the men employed in both digging and manu- facturing the cobalt at Kuttenberg in Bohemia, are fo affected with vomitings, fyncoptic anxieties, cardialgias, difficulties of breathing, fuffocations, tremors, &c. that they appear like living fkeletons. I rear I have too long trefpaffed upon your patience, and I doubt to little purpofe; as you _ will have fo much better and more pertinent in- formation. I moft heartily with’ you all the fuc- cefs which you can defire: I hope you will com- mand a great deal, but am fure you will merit more. I am, with thanks for the honour of your laft correfpondence, Your much obliged, and very humble fervant, J. ROTHERAM. NEWCASTLE, JULY 8, 1773.