The plagiarisms of Julius Jeffreys, F.R.S., in his treatise on the statics of the human chest / by G. Calvert Holland.

Date:
1844
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Credit: The plagiarisms of Julius Jeffreys, F.R.S., in his treatise on the statics of the human chest / by G. Calvert Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    23- clothes in which they are dressed are the skins of different kinds of animals, or, if the labour of art he employed, they are such as are well adapted to defend the surface of the body. * From a more recent workf the following extracts are taken :— “ The inhabitants of northern climates possess greater vigorn- of constitution and physical power, than those of warm and genial latitudes: and it could not possibly be otherwise. The liberal » use of animal food, as well as of the most nourishing and stimu- lating vegetable productions, exerts a powerfully invigorating influ- ence on the vital energies, much increased by strong muscular exertion, which the natives of southern regions could not make, even if they had the disposition, in consequence of the oppressive heat of the sun.”l “ In warm and genial climes, where vegetable nature displays whatever is calculated to delight or gratify the senses, her produc- tions, profuse and almost spontaneous, are peculiarly adapted to the constitution of the inhabitants of such climes, who, requiring neither strong stimulating drink, nor highly invigorating animal food, are best supported by such mild nourishment as gently exhilarates, or refreshes the system,—nourishment, which is abundantly provided for them in a vast variety of rich and cooling fntits.\\ “ The qualities of the blood are more or less rich and invigo- rating according to the purity of the air inhaled, and the nourish- ment afforded by the food digested. A deficiency in the qualities of either immediately produces corresponding effects on the whole system. If the blood possesses its natural properties, the numerous powers of life are maintained in healthy action; if it be deficient in them, these powers languish and exliibit manifest symptoms of derangement.”§ The connexion between food and the properties of the blood, or the generation of animal heat, is clearly stated in * Experimental Inquiry, &c., p. 150. •) An Inquiry into the Principle and Practice of Medicine. Vol. i.