The catechism of health : a sure guide to health and longevity / by Bernard Christopher Faust ... ; translated from the German ; revised and edited, with notes, and a memoir of the author by a physician ; to which are added, remarks on the cholera.

  • Bernhard Christoph Faust
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[1832]
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    NOTES. Note ]. The most useful popular publications on the structure and functions of tlie human body are the Nos. 9, 44, 52, C4, 69, 77, of the Library of Useful Knowledge. No school should be without them. Note 2. Ii may be to the use of this machine that the Italians are in- debted for the symmetry and straightness of their forms. Note 3. ^ It is frequently necessary to keep the head warm, particularly when the rest of the body is so, for if (he head is cold and not covered when the other parts are enveloped in woollen or flannel clothing', a continued current of air will be produced, which will be the consequence of an unpleasant, and, perhaps, a te- dious catarrh, and the disagreeable snuffling at the nose, so common to infants. The timely application of a warm cap or a little flannel often checks its progress. Note 4. The advantages of frequent ablution, in regard to cleanliness, can not be too much insisted upon. But another benefit arises to the constitution. In case of internal congestion, when some of the viscera are loaded with blood, or when any internal part is inflamed, any means by which blood can be brought to the capillary vessels and to the surface of the body, must be, in no small degree, conducive to health, thus cold ablution, and af- terwards friction, rubbing the surfivce over with some coarse cloth, will produce an agreeable warmth. There is no better preventative for colds. In affections of tlie chest, I have fre- qucTitly seen the good effects of this plan; Sir Astley Cooper, in his lectures on surgery, speaks most favourably of the remedy, and instances his own personal experience as a proof of its sa- lutary effects. A patient of mine was once subject to frequent couylis and inflammations of the chest. Ten years ago he commenced the I 2