A treatise on the causes and effects of inflammation, fever, cancer, scrofula, and nervous affections : observations on the correctness of Linnaeus's classification of diseases, together with remarks on the specific action of his patent medicated vapour bath, and rules for diet and regimen / by Charles Whitlaw.

  • Whitlaw, Charles.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A treatise on the causes and effects of inflammation, fever, cancer, scrofula, and nervous affections : observations on the correctness of Linnaeus's classification of diseases, together with remarks on the specific action of his patent medicated vapour bath, and rules for diet and regimen / by Charles Whitlaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    from the dung heap ought to be mixed with quick limej wood-ashes and salt, to destroy the insects, and noxious properties of the manure that may be in the liquor, and the fields watered with it as we do the streets of London : it will answer the double purpose of fertilizing the soil, and de* stroying the insects in the fields, and will procure a much more healthy produce than by top-dressing the soil with recent manure. Aphorism V. Our horticultural policy is equally bad ; nearly the whole of the fruit trees and shrubs have been raised in nursery- grounds, where the soil is completely exhausted; conse- natives very much prided themselves oa their pork, and considered it the most wholesome food they had.—As a contrast to this I beg to mention, that when travelling from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, through the Republic of Colombia, I came, after crossing the Cordillera of Choco, to the village of Novita; at which place the natives live almost entirely on pork. The pigs are very large, and kept on the ground-floors, under the dwelling-rooms of the proprietors of the cottages, which are built of bamboo ; these pigs are fed with herbs, refuse, and the offals of their slain brethren ; they lie in a mass of mire, which is plentifully saturated with rain, that runs in at one side of their dwelling and out at the other. It seldom fails to rain once in twenty-four hours in Choco. I ate of this pork ; it was rank, and red-looking ; I could scarcely keep it on my stomach ; and the natives were all of them more or less sickly. But this bad feeding of pigs in Choco is not so dis- graceful as that which you may yourself see any time in this city of Manchester, at a livery-stable close to Mosley-street; the pigs there are confined in a narrow sink, among the fresh horse-dung ; and their food consists of such half-digested corn as they can rout out. In Choco, they had the excuse of poverty and a want of Indian com, and above all, a want of knowledge ; but here it is love of making money, to obtain which the individual appears to be reckless of the lives of his fellow-creatures: certainly a conduct most disgraceful to a civilized nation, and wliich calls for the interference of the legislature. Wishing you, my dear Doctor, every success in your laudable exertions. Believe me to be. Sincerely and faithfully, your's, CHARLES STUART COCHRANE. Dr. fFhitlaw, 8fc.