CHAPTER II.

The history of epidemics adverse to the theory of Macculloch--Results of confounding drains with sewers, and of converting drains into drain-sewers--Influence of the external world (earth, air, and water) over man, first examined by Hippocrates in his celebrated treatise, “De aere, aquis et locis,” but with other views--Influence of modern chemistry over physiology--Men now expect from chemistry a solution of some of the great problems of physiology and pathology still unsolved pp. 6–14

Περι αερον, ὑδατων καὶ τοπων. Cary’s edition. Paris. 1806.