An inaugural dissertation, in which, by an induction of facts from dysentery, the Mitchillian doctrine of pestilential fluids is illustrated : submitted to the public examination of the Faculty of Physic under the authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore ... for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 9th day of November, 1802 / by Nicholas I. Quackenbos.

  • Quackenbos, Nicholas John, 1781-1847.
Date:
1802
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation, in which, by an induction of facts from dysentery, the Mitchillian doctrine of pestilential fluids is illustrated : submitted to the public examination of the Faculty of Physic under the authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore ... for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 9th day of November, 1802 / by Nicholas I. Quackenbos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    colouring material, or the dye-stuff, was the agent, and the changing or vitiating the white colour by its tinging property, was said to in- fect or stain the fabric; its whiteness was al- leged to be overcast, polluted, spoiled, or un- done. So when the clear and fine atmosphere was vitiated by mixtures of noxious vapours, and poisonous gases extricated from corrupting bo- dies, it was declared to be infected. The pure air, like the white cloth, had acquired a fo- reign tincture; and this effect, wrought upon the rcspirable and healthy atmosphere by the adventitious material with which it was charged, was, in a figurative sense, denomi- nated infection. The air so vitiated or cor- rupted, so different in its constitution, and so altered from what it was, literally speaking, had become infected, or infectusf that is, undone, or spoiled for the purposes of its pri- mitive and ordinary destination. Air thus vitiated was infected air. In like manner, a healthy animal might be infected by coming into an atmosphere of such a tincture, or so corrupted. An exter- nal agent of this kind could infect or undo