Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay : to which are added, select histories of diseases; with remarks / by Charles Kite.

  • Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.
Date:
1795
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay : to which are added, select histories of diseases; with remarks / by Charles Kite. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    50/470 (page 38)
    be in common refpiration, the blood palling through the pulmonary velTels mull have been expofed to the influence of a greater quantity of air than when the perfon was in health. I am acquainted with a young lady of a healthy, but very delicate conftitution, fubjedt to no complaint but what occa- fionally arifes from a weak ftomach, who obferved, the beginning of the winter before laft, that Ihe was more than ufually affedted by the cold; as the winter ad- vanced the inconvenience increafed ; and it was foon obferved, that when fhe ex- pofed herfelf to any moderate degree of cold, either in the houfe or whilfl; in ex- ercife in the open air, for a very few minutes, it had a vifible effedl on the colour of her face ; the cheeks and nofe became red, the rednefs would increafe, and, if fhe continued expofed any confi- derable