A treatise on the means of purifying infected air, of preventing contagion, and arresting its progress / by L. B. Guyton-Morveau ; translated from the French by R. Hall.

  • Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard, 1737-1816.
Date:
1802
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Credit: A treatise on the means of purifying infected air, of preventing contagion, and arresting its progress / by L. B. Guyton-Morveau ; translated from the French by R. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hitherto been adduced to luarrant us positivehj to conclude, that contagious effluvia are essen- tially the same ivith the miasmata exhaling from putrid sidjstances. Whatever difference of opinion may hoiuever prevail respecting the nature and origin of febrile contagions, accu- rate observations have fully proved that, in ivhatever way generated, they may all he pi^o- pagated either by actual contact ivith infected persons, or things, or by breathing air charged ivith effluvia, ivhether proceeding from sub- stances imbued tuith contagious virus, or from patients labouring under pestilential disease: Since all contagious effluvia act only ichen near to the sources ivhence they arise, and since luhen diffused in the air, or chemically united with it by solution, they unquestionably lose their deleterious qualities, it must be obvious that, by a proper attention to ventilation and cleanliness, the influence of infection may be generally avoided; but although both reason and experience conflrm the efficacy of such measuj^es, in preventing or contj^oUing the destructive agency