Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the evil ; nor are gentlemen's carnages much lefs inconvenient; for befides their being expofed in open fheds, where not only the leather but the lining muft unavoidably at- tract and retain damps; perfons who pafs from a hot room, through cold and long palTages, into the open air, and from thence to their carriages, are fubject to be injlanta- neoujly chilled by the fudden tranfition from fuffocating heat to piercing cold. 2dly. tainted or impure Air. To the philofophical experiments and re- fearches of the very ingenious Dr. Priestley, employed in difcovering the nature and pro- perties of factitious airs, we , are much in- debted for a more accurate knowledge of the qualities, and relative degrees of purity, of the atmofpheric air. This air, of which it is faid not above one- third is really pure, is a very heterogeneous mafs, the greater!: proportion of which is really inimical to animal life. Befide this general fource of contamina- tion, the breath and perfpiration of the hu- -iftan body taint the air we breathe fo much, that