The oeconomy of health : or, a medical essay: containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity: in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper.

Date:
[1785?]
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Credit: The oeconomy of health : or, a medical essay: containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity: in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [ ] of frefti Air is highly neceffary. In putrid Fevers, the Patient fhould be removed, and the Apartments well wafhed with Plenty of warm Water, and dryed with a quick and flrong Fire, keeping the Windows open, at the fame Time. This is a very, iafe and effectual Method of purifying noxi- ous Air. In the advanced, as well as in the earlier Stages of phthifical and consumptive Dif- eafes, it cannot be improper, after other Means have failed, to try a Sea Voyage and a warmer Climate. The Reaching and Vomiting occafioned by Sea ficknefs, which has been generally accounted hazardous, ought not, by any Means, to intimidate. If the Difeafe be feated in the glandular Parts of the Lungs, if it be of the fcrophulous Kind, or of an hydropic Nature, or if a general Infardlion, or local Plenitude of the Lungs give Rife to it, (and thus circumftanced indeed from one oi' more of thefe Caufes, the Difeafe is moft •