Volume 2

Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Date:
1930
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that of the Aer, which plainly withered him, and fpoyled his Digeflion in a fhort time after his arrival at London. There is, I confefle, a certain ? Idiofyncrajia in the Com¬ petition of fome perfons, which may. tit and difpofe them to thrive better in fome Aers, than in other: But, it is ma- nifefl, that thofe who repair to London, no fooner enter into it, but they find a univerfal alteration in their Bodies, which are either dryed up or enflamed, the humours being exafperated and made apt to putrifie, their fenfories and perfpiration fo exceedingly flopped, with the Ioffe of Ap¬ petite, and a kind of general flupefa&ion, fucceeded with fuch Catharrs and Dijilllations, as do never, or very rarely quit them, without fome further Symptomes of dangerous lnconvenieucy fo long as they abide in the place; which yet are immediately reflored to their former habit, fo foon as they are retired to their Homes and enjoy the frefh Aer again. And here I may not omit to mention what a molt Learned ^ Phyjician, and one of the Colledge, allured me, as I remember of a Friend of his, who had fo flrange an Antipathy to the Aer of London; that though he were a Merchant, and had frequent bufinelfe in the City, was yet conflrained to make his Dwelling fome miles without it; and when he came to the Exchange, wtithin an hour or two, grew fo extremely indilpofed, that (as if out of his proper Element) he was forced to take horfe (which ufed therefore conflantly to attend him at the Entrance) and iDr. WhilUer. ride, p A peculiar temperament or difpofition, 7