There's an extra treat buried in this article...
The diarist John Evelyn, whose 1661 treatise Fumifugium focused on London’s growing pollution problem, had no doubt that Parr’s death was caused by “the Aer, which plainly wither’d him”
Fumifugium is such a great title!
Honestly this article gets better as you go...We could use a modern medical series like the old "Anatomy of Quackery" to debunk the insidious nonsense still being spread today!