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Did the medicine of the environment influence health? Specifically, did it diminish morbidity and mortality, as its practitioners wished it to do? The eighteenth-century sources consulted for this book do not provide a conclusive answer to these questions. They focus on the theory of the medicine of the environment, on the measures proposed by the environmentalists, and on measures implemented. They do not always discuss untreated sites, and they do not furnish satisfactorily detailed evidence about treated sites.
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Riley, J.C. (1987). Medical Effects of Environmental Engineering. In: The Eighteenth-Century Campaign to Avoid Disease. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18616-7_6
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