A view of the nervous temperament : being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, &c. / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1807
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Credit: A view of the nervous temperament : being a practical enquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits; gout, &c. / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and perfeftion. Mankind in the earliefl ages of the world mud have foon learned this. Although they had no knowledge of either the chemical qualities or the mechanical pro- perties of common air, fome particular devia- tion from the ufual flandard, was reckoned the chief caufe of epidemic fevers. The fenfes in a great meafure were the bed tefls of a tainted atmofphere, efpecially that of fmell: and where large colledions of animal and vegetable filth were found in a (late of cor- ruption, oftenfive effluvia would be quickly de- tected, and would be avoided. But a more cor- reO; method of judging of the medium in which we breathe is now obtained from che- mical philofophy j for independent of any noxious fubftance which may impregnate the atmofphere, as arifmg from the decompofi- lion of animal or vegetable matter, or other fources, it is liable to become noxious to life, by whatever means the oxygen or refpirable portion is deflroyed, lefTened, or abllraded. Such is the cafe when a number of perfons are confined in a fmall place ; or where large fires are kept, and the doors and windows made too clofe. It is thus the city or popu- lous town is rendered lefs falubrious than the