Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases, and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes : and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy / by T. Forster.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases, and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes : and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy / by T. Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERICAL ORIGIN Of EPIDEMIC DISORDERS OF HEALTH AND OF ITS RELATION TO THE PREDISPONENT CONSTITUTIONAL CAUSES EXEMPLIFIED BY HISTORICAL NOTICES AND CASES OF PESTILENTIAL, CONTINUED, AND INTERMITTING FEVERS, HEADACHES, AND NUMEROUS FORMS OF NERVOUS AND DISPEPTIC, AS WELL AS LOCAL DISEASES, NOT USUALLY CONSIDERED AS HAVING AN ATMOSPHERICAL ORIGIN ; AND OF THE TWOFOLD MEANS OF PREVENTION, MITIGATION, AND CURE, BY CHANGE OF AIR, AND BV DIET, REGULARITY, AND SIMPLE MEDICINES: WITH POPULAR RULES FOR OBSERVING FASTING AND ABSTINENCE, WITH BENEFIT INSTEAD OF INJURY TO THE CONSTITUTION, ACCORDING TO THE METHOD OF THE ANCIENTS. By T. FORSTER, M.B., F.L.S., M.A.S., COKR. MEMB. ACAD. NAT. SCIENCES AT PHILADELPHIA, MEM. OP THE MED. CHIR. SOCIETY OF LONDON, ETC. ETC. CHELMSFORD : PRINTED BY MEGGY & CHALK, HIGH STREET, AND PUBLISHED BY THEM ; ALSO BY T. & G. UNDERWOOD, FLEET STREET, LONDON, AND TREUTTEL & WURTZ, LONDON, PARIS, & STRASBOURG. 1829.