Volume 1

Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and other diseases : whether applied to the surfane [!] of the body, or used internally.

  • Currie, James, 1756-1805.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and other diseases : whether applied to the surfane [!] of the body, or used internally. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    that the health of the inhabitants should be per- petually endangered from such a cause, and we cannot conceive any subject more proper to be submitted to the wisdom of Parliament. But in a more especial manner, we would direct the attention of the gentlemen of the town-council to the habitations of the poor, and in the first place to the inhabited cellars. The vast number of persons that occupy such dwellings, and the impossibility of finding other habitations, forbid us to hope that any recommendation for preventing them from being generally inhabited, could be attended with immediate effect. But a general Survey should be made of these sub- terraneous dwellings, and such means adopted for promoting their salubrity as circumstances require and admit. Many of these cellars are double, and the apartments next the street, hav- ing access to the external air only by the narrow ^nd oblique aperture that forms the door, and which is of course shut during the night; and the back apartment having access to light and air only by its communication with the apartment in front; under such circumstances the generation of disease, and especially of contagious fever, is al- most a necessary consequence. In all such cases a direct communication should be made with the external air, by opening a window in each apartment.