Of the improvement of medicine in London : on the basis of public good / By J.C. Lettsom.

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1775
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Credit: Of the improvement of medicine in London : on the basis of public good / By J.C. Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    %J dC — ( ) ... SECTION XI. • • •• ■ - -* ■*- - - «v» - ' 4 il>. w)U ^ Advantages ?of Baths. arfWealioaVxfe ad oioij OpHOUGH obftructed perfpiration -1- may not now be confidered as fo ’** * •-(“* j -• - \1i • L > V P'(yr, : - ■ prolific and general a lource of difeafe as i.l '* ' 1 11^2(111 ,’4'! it was formerly, yet there is reafon to con- i • Ai- rOiUfp . • ..hdrerr . oi elude, that many difeafes either originate .. _ , ...,aQu vf.iUi-i. , . j ® |0 from, or are increaled by, a diminution of *.,OJ Oil* v; •OUiJQOD $£*j# Xli flOdXJiOVS* this natural excretion.: particularly among ft • 'uzmfmtutvq ri oinnoa tne poor, whole employments^ and want '1 ■_ ' **J ■--y-'j-l Li I j j. ^^11 troft r^}fj t . of cleanlinjefs, tend to obftrudt the * per- fpirable veffels, and thereby induce the itj AiWj.w*iX|.^n£70buiO <„ J v fc*m|L diforders dependent thereon. . In luch '. -v- a.j j ..... :■** 00 (. . r./u .T II cafes , a warm bath, muft prove peculiarly ' 1 4 - ' v., 1 1* vi Ih > • * i ’: tjf i J > rj(, * , ferviceabie, by cleanfing the furface of the ' *JI3T0P1 ... . Oi iind^UC au body, and reftoring that perfpiration, by • Ta - .• <«a • <r. A.iiiio an*7 the retention of, which the difeafe nad J‘*w“ *■ V—«-• >v iv’TNI ciiit either, been acquired^ or confiderably aug¬ mented*, . r .. .. rv * A w«* *.J. •JrjLJL 4JI 4c-* * * J hf 4] The female poor more especially, * by confinement in nurfihg, mifmanagement in lyings-in, laborious exertions above their >:v t f