An inaugural dissertation on the perspirable fluids of the human body : submitted to the public examination of the Faculty of Physic under the authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, The Right Rev. Benjamin Moore ..., for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 9th day of November, 1802 / by Richard L. Walker.

  • Walker, Richard L. (Richard Louis), 1922-2003.
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1802
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the perspirable fluids of the human body : submitted to the public examination of the Faculty of Physic under the authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, The Right Rev. Benjamin Moore ..., for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 9th day of November, 1802 / by Richard L. Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( « ) have passed first through the exhalant arteries of excretory ducts, then undergone a further change while remaining in and about the cuticle or first shirt, and afterwards have been transmitted, by rubbing or wiping, to the linen fibres or cottori filaments of the second. The animal matter which befouls the outer shirt is a good indica- tion of that which adheres to the inner: for, as clean linen and cotton become soiled very soon by lying in contact with any part of the human body, what they receive must be principally de- rived from the cuticle which they touch and ab- sterge . The uncleanness of shirts, drawers, and stockings, may, therefore, be deemed to be matter wiped from the cuticle, and derived to the cuticle from the vessels and ducts of the sub- jacent true skin. An examination, then, of the facts relative to cloathing grown foul by long wearing next the cuticle, may be considered as virtually an examination of the cuticle itself, and of the excreted matters which stick to it. It is unnecessary to make larger quotations from Dr. Mitchill's paper on this subject, as every one can have access to the Medical Reposi- tory. The Doctor attempts to prove that yellow fever is frequently produced by the accumulation of the excreted perspiration on the surface of living bodies, and its condensation into cloathing. 6