Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases : and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes, exemplified by historical notices and cases, and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy ... / by T. Forster.

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1829
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Credit: Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases : and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes, exemplified by historical notices and cases, and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy ... / by T. Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CI UPTER J. A GENERAL STTATEIMENT OF FACTS, TENDING TO PROVE THE EXCITING CAUSE OF EPIDEMICS TO BE ATMOSPHERICAL. BEC. PAGE 1. Health is perpetually iuflueyiced by atmospherical causes. Opinion of the antients 1 2. Peculiarities of the atmosphere a ffect the life of plants 0 3. Nature exhibits herself in periodical phenomena 10 4. There is, in many diseases, a diurnal periodicity of symptoms which, from analogy, we ?night suppose to be atmospherical..,.. 11 5. Plants have diurnal periods 12 6. Of catarrh in general and influenza in particular 13 7. Of the concurrence of volcanos and earthqtiakes with pestilence... 14 8. Of the possible remote origin of atmospherical perturbations Ibid Q. The external influence, above described, is confirmed and illus- trated by certain monthly periods of irritability 22 10. Delusion produced by the imperfection of terms. Necessity of discovering the true causes of disea.se 26 11. Contagious diseases differ essentially from epidemics, but both are influenced by atmospherical cause. Necessity for dis- crimination. Opinion of Hippocrates 29 CHAPTER II. ATMOSPHERICAL INFLUENCE OF HEALTH ILLUSTRATED BY THE HISTORY OF PARTICULAR DISEASES, AND THE EFFECTS OF CHANGE OF AIR. SEC. PACE 1. Object of the present chapter illustrated by cases of the doctrine laid down in the last 33 2. Plague and other pestilential fevers hnoivn to originate in atmos- pherical causes, and hence resist remedies Ibid 3. Air favours varieties of practice, by merging the effects of opposite remedies in its own greater curative power 3.5 4. Intermiltents and other fevers proved to be the joint effects of atmospherical and other causes. Uenefft of change of air 36 .5. Bilious fever and hypocondriasis considered as often epidemical, and the consequent power of the weather to affect the mind..,. 41