Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de apoplexia ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Daniel Haliday.

  • Haliday, Daniel.
Date:
1819
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    Tristis experientia docet aerem quoque, quem exspiramus, vitam aliquando adimere posse: “ Dum spirat homo,” ait celeb. Gregorius* soli- ta sua elegantia, “ lethale sibi aliisque spirantibus “ venenum fundit. Neque solus pulmonis halitus “ adeo nocet: manat et ab omni cutis foramine tc materia subtilissima venenata fortasse putres- “ cens quae diu collecta, neque per auras dif- “ fusa, et corpori denuo admota, aut iterum in “ id ipsum recepta gravissimis morbis inficit.” Horreo penitus dum lego descriptionem malo- rum quae in carcere quodam regni Bengalensis mense Junio an. 1756 gignebat aer non reno- vatus vitiatusque plurimorum hominum exha- lationibus ; eorumdem malorum exitum unice attingam. Regis jussu sub vesperam centum quadraginta quinque viri cum una muliere in eum carcerem una conjiciebantur, quem Black- hole dictum est; ejus area pedibus quadratis constabat decem et octo; cuilibet hinc detento * Conspectus Medicinae Theoreticae, cap. i. Auctore Jacob. Grego- ry. Edinburgi, 1818.