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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    terize it as an epidemic, malignant putrid fever : for, if in the commencement some of the cases were accompanied with symptoms of synocha, they soon degenerated into pu^ trid and nervous fevers, which were propa- gated from one to another; proving conta- gious to some from the immediate effect of the original cause, and to others from the effect of the putrid miasmata which exhaled from the sick; and these causes operating more powerfully on habits already debilitated,, or in robust but timid subjects, very soon engendered an extreme malignity, and rendered these fevers destructive in the highest degree*. In this account, drawn up by professional men who traced the progress of this dreadful malady, may be easily discovered all the cir- cumstances that contributed to prolong its duration, and to multiply its victims. It must tend to impress even those who have the leasts information, with all the advantages that, may be expected from vigorously combating the pre-disposing causes and the foulness of the atmosphere. Let us now examine whether they would be justified in forming a contrary decision, by following the doctrines of those * Keport relative to the liiscase of Cadiz, &c, p. 41. who