HEAT. 
bilious affections affume the form*of dyfentery, probably 
from fome degree of i i xcited in the i 
Acute and chronic infl 
t heat. 
repeat thefe hypothetical fpeculations, which, as yet, have 
failed to reduce the facts to any fatisfactory general prin- 
ciple. ws 
Praéticall 
Spee 3 ' 
the — of thefe difeafes, what rea oning would have 
. . : . 
wi as as without, 
the folids, 
(Mofeley 
author fuggetts, that, ina voyage to the Weft Indies, «after 
the ti are i 
3 and to 
ftrong and full conftitution, 
quently diluting with a 
ple ofa grofs habit, and of a 
a mild purge or two, or fre- 
ution tartar in 
ts; eru 07? ; ¥ ry excefs, more 
efpecially in young perfons, is dangerous; and tem ce 
in all things is neceflary to be obferved men, women, and 
chi Be Great refolution, however, a to be requifite 
and ftrong, bearing 
and the fymptoms, fo called, feem to be the refult of the 
wine, 
toe “ Whatevér mode of 
ut we do not deem it neceflary to - 
bearing marks of an in matory diathefis; 
living,” fays the author juft quoted, “ may be preper after 
geile have lived long in hot climates, and when, perhaps, 
by having been frequently difeafed, the inflammatory diathefis 
of the body is pait—while it remains .(as it will with fome 
people for many years), thofe who ufe water for their com 
mon drink will never be fubje@ to troublefome or dangerous 
difeafes.”? Again, he fays, I aver, from my own knowledge 
and cuftom for feveral years, as well as from the cultom and 
obfervations of many other perfons, that thofe who drink 
nothing but water are but little affeéted by the climate, and 
can undergo the greateft fatigue without inconvenience.” 
(Loe. cit. :p. 57.)- " 
Great heat is likewife injurious, and fecondarily produc- 
tive of much difeafe, by rendering the bedy fufceptible of 
heat; and D 
rooms and theatres. In the fame way, the internal applica- 
tion of cold, by copious draughts of water, after violent 
ertion and during profufe fweating, has not only given 
deduced from them, and are {till popularly 
But the philofophical inquiries of Dr. Currie of Liverpool d 
it which excited it 
vigour of the fyitem is exhautted by 
evolving animal heat is thus 
s the experimenters in heated rooms © 
which the animal heat was excited without exhaultion of the 
‘vital powers, paffed from the hot rooms 
the cold air, even naked, 
vemience, ‘and were very 
without the leaft injury OF 
‘ightly fenfible to the afion & 
