An essay on the nature and origin of the contagion of fevers ... / [John Alderson].
- Alderson, John, 1757-1829
- Date:
- 1788
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the nature and origin of the contagion of fevers ... / [John Alderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ H ] ! tance : but that being further diffufed, it becomes diluted and difflpated. If the Infection had never been commu¬ nicated but by Effluvium immediately from the infedted Perfon, either of thefe Ways would be fufficient; but they give us no fatisfadtory Way of accounting for the Phe¬ nomena of Fomites, the Adtion of which has been confidered by all Obfervers, as more virulent than the newly emitted Efflu¬ vium from the Sick. Dr. Cullen obferves €C that Sub fiances having been near the Bodies of Men are “ imbued with Effluvia, in which Subflan- *x ces thefe Effluvia are fometimes retained lc in an adtive State for a very long Time; “ and it appears probable that Contagions *c as they arife from thefe Fomites, are more “ powerful than as they arife from the hu- man Body.” On the melancholy Event at the Old Bailey it was remarked that thofe who re¬ ceived the Infedtion immediately from the Cloaths of the Prifoners, fuffered more % from](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30351546_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
