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II. Phthifiologia Lancaftrienfis , cut aaefpt 
Tentamen Fhilofophicnm de aquis Minerals 
bns^ &c. Aui. Car oh Leigh, M. D. Lond. 
Impnfis S, Smith & B. Walford^ &c. In 
8vo. 1694. 
THE Author divides the Medicinal part of this 
Treatife into feveral Heads,- and Difcourfes firft 
of the various Kinds and Caufes of the Vhtbifick, obler- 
ved by himfelf in that County, w hich arc either Scor- 
butic Strumofe or Chylofe, and are often the attendants 
of Fevers epidemic or intermittent, Dropfies, Rickets, 
Drunkennefs, Stoppages Fluores albi. Jaundice, Rheuma- 
tifms, &c. He begins with the Scorbutic proceeding 
from the ill Temperature of the Air, the Parents or Erro* 
res fex non naturales : Giving fome Experiments of the 
Alteration of the Saliva by a few Drops of feveral Vi- 
triolic Liquors, he infers that the Air being fill'd with 
fuch Steams, and conveigh'd to the Blood is a great oc- 
cafion of this Diftemper : He obferves farther that Ma- 
ritine places are infefted with Sulphureous fleams, as 
well as Salt ones difcoverable by the I$nes fatui in the 
Night, Stinks, &c. and pronounces fuch places unheal- 
thy. As to the Hereditary, by the way he cbferves, 
that this Difeafe is generally owing to the Father, and 
that tho' the Mother were of an healthy Conftitution.He 
proceeds to give the Symptoms and their Caufes in the 
beginning of the Diftemper, fuch as want of Appetite, 
Sweats, Turbid Urine?, Diarrhoea's, &c. touching in 
Tranfuu at the Proclivity of the People of Britiol to 
this Diftemper, Next, of the Symptoms when the Di- 
feafe has gotten more ftrength,copiousfpitting, Afthma's, 
Shiverings and irregular Fevers, &c. in the 4th. Chapter 
he propofes feveral general Rules according to the feve- 
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