Domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1809
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Credit: Domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    main ina^Hvc, but take every day as much cxercife •as he can bear. The beft method of taking cxercife is to ride on horfcback, as this gives the body a great tica] of metiop, without much fatigue. Such as cannof^car tliis kind ofexercife, mud: make ufe of a carriage. A long jour- ney, as it amufes the mind by a continual cliangc of ©bjeds, is greatly preferable to riding the lame grountl over and over. Care, iiowever, muftbe taken to avoid catching cold from wet clothes, damp beds, or the like. The patient ought always to finifli his ride in tlic .morning, or at leafl; before dinner ; otlierwile it will oftener do harm tlian good. It is pity thole who attend the lick rddom recom* mend riding in tliis dif-afe, till the patient is cither unable to bear it, or tlie malady Ivas become incurable-. Patients are-likewile apt to trifle with every tiling that is in their own powmr. They cannot fee how one of the common actions of life fliould prove a remedy in an obftinatc difc-afc, and therefore they rejeft it, wlule they greedily hunt after relief from medicine, merely becaufe they do not under Hand it. Thofc who have ftrength and courage to undertake a pretty long voyage, may expedl great advantage from it. This, to my knowledge, has frequently cured a confuniption after the patient was, to all appearance, far advanced in that dileafe, and where medicine had proved inelF £i:ual. Hence it is reafonable to conclude, that if a voyage were undertaken in due tiirtc, it would feldom fail to perform a cure *. Such as try this method of cure ought to carrv'as much frelli provifions along with fhem as will Icrve for the whole time they are at lea —as millc is not calily obtained in this lituation, they ought to live ♦ Two things chiefly operate to prevent the benefit which would arise from sailing. The one is, that phy.>icians .seldom ouicr it lill the disease is too tar advanced ; and the other i<, tffat they seldom order a voyage of a suificient length. A patient n>ay receive no tfe-' nefit by crossing the Channel, who, should he cross * the Atlantic, might be completely cured. Indeed, we.havc reason to believe a v©yagq,of this kind, if taken in due time, would seldom fail‘to cure a consumption. = «