A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases: With the Principal Phenomena of the Physical World, which Precede and Accompany Them, and Observations Deduced from the Facts Stated ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800 |
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Página 444 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Página 248 - Ambassador; — and the richer they are, the greater is their danger. Those dreadful stories you have heard of the Plague have very little foundation in truth. I own, I have much ado to reconcile myself to the sound of a word which has always given me such terrible ideas; though I am convinced there is little more in it than in a fever.
Página 168 - ... upon a certain secret and inexplicable alteration in the bowels of the earth, whence the air becomes impregnated with such kinds of effluvia as subject the human body to distempers of a certain specific type.
Página 442 - tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the first degree...
Página 96 - The first cases of these diseases in every epidemic period, are always generated in the human body, without contagion." "A series of epidemic diseases, measles, influenza, affections of the throat, followed by pestilential fevers, appear generally to commence and date their departure, from some of the great agitations of the elements. This at least has been the case in the four last periods in America, beginning with...
Página 51 - That most of them happened, after or during severe cold, or during moist weather and in spring, winter or autumn. Some, however, occurred in dry hot seasons, and others in mild winters. "2. Nineteen instances occurred in years when there was a volcanic eruption in Italy or Iceland, and eleven others, though in different years, were within a few months of eruptions; making 30 out of the 44. Two or three others happened near the time of volcanic discharges in South America.
Página 53 - reason to conclude the disease to be the effect of some access of stimulant powers to the atmosphere by means of the electrical principle. No other principle in creation, which has yet come under the cognizance of the human mind, seems adequate to the same effects.
Página 465 - Th ere are no tides in lakes, because they are generally so small, that when the moon is vertical she attracts every part of them alike, and therefore, by rendering all the water equally light, no part of it can be raised higher than another. The Mediterranean and Baltic seas have very small elevations, because the inlets by which they communicate •with the ocean are so narrow, that they cannot, in so short a time, receive or discharge enough to raise or sink their surfaces sensibly...
Página 309 - Italy, with their ships and merchandise, and we being willing to consult their peace and advantage as much as possible, and observing, from the practice of other nations, the necessity of their having a peculiar magistrate among them for the determining of all disputes, etc.
Página 445 - Arcita anon his bond up haf, And more encense into the fire he cast, With other rites mo, and at the last The statue of Mars began his hauberke ring; And with that soun he herd a murmuring Ful low and dim, that sayde thus, Victorie.