An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life.

  • William Falconer
Date:
[1789?]
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Credit: An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ «4 ] flrudtions, and even rhcumatick complaints, were produced in confequence of the bark being, as it ivas thought, prematurely given. But it now ap- pears, that thefe complaints were the confequences of the diforder being fuffered to continue too long, j not of its being too foon ftopt, and that the belt method of preventing them is to interrupt the | courfe of the fits as early as poflible by a fteady and refolute ufe of the proper remedy. This caution ought to be carefully attended to, and enforced by thofe who give advice to people in country places, as the prejudices in favour of the fits being fuffered to continue, are often very ftrong. * Bitter Medicines, fuch as the flowers of chamo- mile, roots of gentian and centaury, are, in a good i meafure, fimilar in their eftedfs to the Peruvian , bark. They are, however, lefs effe&ual in the cure ofintermittents and diforders of a putrid tendency, but better fuited to a v'eak ftate of the ftomach and organs of digeflion. A flrong infufion of any of the above-mentioned articles, with a little rind of the Seville orange, makes a bitter preparation as efficacious as any, and as pleafant as fuch a medi-. cine can well be expended to be. A quarter of a pint of this taken twice a day for a week, fortnight, or three weeks, will often be of great fervice in diJ- orders of the ftomach unattended with fever. In- fufions of this kind are alfo convenient vehicles foi thf