The influence of the atmosphere, more especially the atmosphere of the British Isles, on the health and functions of the human frame : embracing observations on the nature, treatment and prevention of the principal diseases resulting from sudden atmospherical transitions ; and unfolding original views and fundamental principles for the prolongation of life, and conservation of health. To which are added practical researches on the pathology, treatment, and prevention of gout and rheumatism in all their proteian forms. An essay / by James Johnson, M.D.

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845.
Date:
1818
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Credit: The influence of the atmosphere, more especially the atmosphere of the British Isles, on the health and functions of the human frame : embracing observations on the nature, treatment and prevention of the principal diseases resulting from sudden atmospherical transitions ; and unfolding original views and fundamental principles for the prolongation of life, and conservation of health. To which are added practical researches on the pathology, treatment, and prevention of gout and rheumatism in all their proteian forms. An essay / by James Johnson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of his native soil some service^ by translating and condensing a valuable octavo volume into 81 pages^ without leaving behind a single useful fact, or ingenious observation. If he be not egre- giousiy mistaken, this part of the work will merit and excite the attention of the medical world. As to the appendix on rheumatism, since the author is more personally concerned in it, he must necessarily spe^k of it with greater reserve. But lie flatters himself that it will not derogate from that rank which the Naval Medical Corps has, of late years, maintained, under great disadvantages, in the estimation of the profession at large—a corps that may fearlessly say, with their owu im- niortal FALCo^ER— j'^pproach, ye learned, arrd judge if we depart^ Unequal, from the precepts of our art. Whatever may be the demerits of this work;, in other respects, it is, at least, free from one— the MEGA BiBLioN cvil. Under the genial influ- ence of a modern typographical atmosphere, this volume would certainly have attained a stature and corpulence far beyond the middle size. It is to be hoped, however, that although the form be slender, and the features small, yet that the Constitution is sound—and that it will long pre- serve a vigorous state of the circulation and EXCITABILITY, JAMES JOHNSONc (^ Dr. JOHNSON cannot close this preface without returning most sincere thanks to his friends in Portsmouth and Portsea, in which towns alone, nearly a fourth of the whole Edition has been already ordered. St. George's Square, Portsea- Pec, I, lbl7.