Guide to invalids : a manual for persons using the remedies of S.S. Fitch.

  • Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Date:
[1850?]
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Credit: Guide to invalids : a manual for persons using the remedies of S.S. Fitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    great exertion of any kind—any great, unusual or sudden effort, either mental or physical. How many men have fallen dead in Congress ! Avoid all great assemblages—churches, theatres, concerts, crowds. Moderate, regular exercise, or labor to which you are accustomed, may be pursued. Avoid going up-stairs as much as possible, or walking up hills; be regular in hours of .sleep, eating, labor, exercise, &c. Use the Pills so as to have a gentle evacuation daily. Avoid much fruit, and windy fruit of all sorts. Free sponge-bathing, frictions, and salt water bathing should be used daily, but avoid getting under water, or in the water. Sea-bathing, if you go into deep water and a heavy surf, is dangerous, and should be avoided. Dyspepsia, catarrh, ami kidney diseases should all be corrected. The kidneys not acting well, immediately disturb the heart. It should at once be corrected. All womb diseases should be cured. (See re- marks on this in another place.) A very small blister constantly worn on the seat of pain is most excellent. A seton may be also worn. In all cases of pain the Pulmonary and Rheumatic Liniments are most valuable, rubbed on or spread on a plaster and put or worn upon the heart. In cases of spasm, or continued pain, the magnetic plaster is very good, also the galvanic plates. Occasional bleeding, if very full of blood, is excellent. Often the heart-patient faints, and is«supposed to be dead—do not give him up, especially if a young person. Pry open the mouth, and give a dessert-spoonful of the heart's ease, or some active stimulant—the heart's ease is the best of any thing I know. By this course I have seen a vast number of heart diseases cured in persons of all ages and sexes. I have seen old men with heart disea- ses of eight or ten years standing get entirely well, and die of other diseases. I scarcely know of any disease more manageable than a vast proportion of heart diseases. Their treatment, however, requires unceasing caution and good judgment on the part of the patient. See my Lectures. DYSPEPSIA. [See remarks on this disease in my Lectures.'] It often leads to consumption, and often brings on asthma, heart dis- eases, sick headache, chronic diarrhcea, &c. It is often produced by costiveness, and womb and kidney complaints. It often produces chronic diarrhoea, &c, and always aggravates it —often causes, and always aggravates piles. Among diseases this is certainly one of the most curable. The patient requires a supporter and shoulder braces. Use Cathartic Pills, Nervine, Humor Correc- tor, Depurative Syrup, Anti-Dyspeptic Mixture, and Anti-Dyspeptic Powder, if there is much pain in the stomach. In some cases a cloth
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