Medical tracts ... / by Benjamin Moseley.

  • Moseley, Benjamin, 1742-1819.
Date:
1800
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    curious ; nor is hiftory deftitute of many in- stances of their fatal effedts to the human race *. Can any perfon fay what may be the con- fequences of introducing the Lues Bovilla, a beflial humour—into the human frame, after a long lapfe of years r Who knows, befides, what ideas may rife, in the courfe of time, from a brutal fever having excited its incongruous imprelfions on the brain ? Who knows, alfo, but that the human character may undergo ftrange mutations from quadrupedan fympathy ; and that fome modern Pafiphae may rival the fables of old ? I mention this ferious trifling, not from difrefpedt to the ingenious, nor to difeourage inquiry ; the object well deferves it;—but the dodtrine of engrafting diftempers is not yet comprehended by the wileft men : and I wifh to arreft the hurry of public credulity, until * Lues Bovilla, Thterjcuchen Gift,—“ Homines interdum fub incauta pecorum aegrotantium medicatione, vel a detra&ione pelli? raortuorum, irao etiam coriarios alutam e pellibus demortu- ©rum animaliura fabricantes inficit, & febrem putrido-inflam- matoriam cum bullis ichorolis, aut papulis nigris, partem cui in- cident, valde inflammantibus excitat. Plenck, Toxicolog. p. 60. Ed, Viennse, 1785.