Cholera morbus ... together with The treatment of the cholera morbus / translated from the German by George Cox; by Dr. Russell and Dr. Barry.

  • Cox George.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Cholera morbus ... together with The treatment of the cholera morbus / translated from the German by George Cox; by Dr. Russell and Dr. Barry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    s Homer, attacked before the disease developed it- self in the human frame, and in other places birds and insects fell dead to the earth. Fish died in the rivers, as now happens in the Dwina, whilst in that place, this year, vegetation flourishes with an unusual degree of luxuriance—a proof of the plastic vegetative nature of the poison which en- genders the disease. There was in the atmosphere an influence tending to produce the disease, which inclined front East to West. In the East there occurs a greater mass of continent, more stiffness jn the conformation of the earth, and at the same time, more tendency to expansion of elements, occasioned particularly by the putrefaction of the Vegetable kingdom, and by the predominancy of vegetation generally. The diurnal revolution of the earth occasions an atmospherical current from East to West, a direction which falling stars are observed to take. However, the miasmatic development considerably co-operates in producing this effect. Apollo strikes with his arrow, and heals with his beams. The sun excites the earth’s elements to development of warmth, and from this arises the principle of expansion in the element, and by this decomposition is caused. But the light of the sun has also vivifying and oxydizing properties, and warmth in its gradual progress