Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 1

Note 51 — THE RESULT OF OBSERVATIONS MADE UPON THE DISEASES WHICH OCCURRED IN THE MILITARY HOSPITALS OF THE UNITED STATES, DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

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“Cleanliness is founded on a natural aversion to what is unseemly and offensive in the persons of others; and there seems also to be an instinctive horror at strangers implanted in human nature for the same purpose, as is visible in young children, and uncultivated people. In the early ages of Rome, the same word signified both a stranger and an enemy.” Dr. Blane, p. 225.

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