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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Original Publisher: J. Churchill Subjects: Medical geography Fever History / General Medical / General Medical / Epidemiology Medical / Pathology Medical / Public Health Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. EFFECTS OF HEAT ON THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. It appears that to this cause, almost solely, the early adventurers who first navigated the tropical seas, or who inhabited for some time those countries, attributed the fevers by which their companions were carried off, and their small colonies were devastated: and in consequence they gave to these diseases the name of Calenturas. At a late period this opinion gave way to others, and heat was looked upon as an active agent in the production of malaria only, but not directly as a cause of fever. After the promulgation of the doctrine pkysiolo- gique, however, it again became to a certain degree popular: and we find that the eleves of this school, in their works upon the subject, look upon the yellow fever as being nothing more than a gastro-enteritis in its most acute form, arising from insolation. The human body is capable of supporting for a short time only, a temperature considerably higher than its own. Many persons have exposed themselves to the action of an atmosphere sufficiently heated to produce the ebullition of water; care being taken at the same time that there be a sufficient supply of air, in its common state of rarefaction, for the purposes of respiration. This faculty seems to depend upon a peculiar property possessed by animal bodies of resisting, for a short time at least, the absorption of the superabundant caloric. M. Rochoux relates, in the Archives Gen...

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