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A Dissertation On The Influence Of Heat And Humidity by James Murray. This English description of the original inaugural dissertation surveys how heat and humidity affect medicinal substances, diet, and the living body. Murray argues that most medicines perform better when administered in liquid forms and that the state of dilution and temperature can alter the action of drugs, tonics, and diaphoretics. The work unfolds in three broad divisions: the effects of heat and fluidity on medicines; the modulation of food and drink by heat and dilution; and the influence of temperature and moisture on the living organism. It examines vegetable powders, decoctions, infusions, oils, and new apparatus for vapor baths and warm inhalations, including iodine vapour, and applies these ideas to consumptive disease, croup, catarrh, and other chest affections. Rich with practical guidance and experimental notes, the treatise blends empirical observation with theoretical speculation about animal heat, absorption through the skin, and the diffusion of caloric, and aims to improve medical practice and public health.
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