An anti-calomel lecture : being the substance of an address written by appointment of the Medical Association of Meigs County, Ohio : to have been delivered before said society at its annual meeting held in Pomeroy, Ohio, May 20th, 1854, at 10 o'clock, A.M., but was prevented by peculiar circumstances / by William N. Hudson.
- Hudson, William N.
- Date:
- 1854
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Credit: An anti-calomel lecture : being the substance of an address written by appointment of the Medical Association of Meigs County, Ohio : to have been delivered before said society at its annual meeting held in Pomeroy, Ohio, May 20th, 1854, at 10 o'clock, A.M., but was prevented by peculiar circumstances / by William N. Hudson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ REPUBLISHED.] DIET AND REGIMEN, For Invalids and those afflicted with, or toho wish to prevent Chronic Diseases, such as Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Lung Affections, Sick Headache, Chronic Nervous Affect ions, fyc. 'Eat at regular hours—and notoftener than once in five hours—of only one kind of wholesome food at a meal; and, what is still better, is to continue that one kind of food for every meal for a week or more, and then change for some other one kind, and do likewise. Let jour food (wholesome ripe fruits except- 'ed) be well cooked, and thoroughly mas- ticated, and chiefly or wholly of a veg- etable nature: such as good bread, es- pecially Graham bread, wheat grits, corn bread if it agrees with the stomach, bread and milk, mush and milk, mush and molasses, potatoes, (roasted, baked or boiled,) rice in different forms, good ripe fruits, &c, &c, and if meats, only once a day, (at dinner) and that lean; such as beef, mutton, chicken, squirrel, venison, or fresh fish in the cool seasons of the year, such as you find by experi- ence best agrees with your stomach.— Let your supper be light, or wholly omitted, and always taken at least three hours before retiring to rest. Avoid all grease and fatty viands, es- pecially pork and old butter. Use no pepper or spices, and salt sparingly.— Always stop eating while having some- thing of an appetite for more food. Pure soft water is the best and only drink that should be used. When a per- son has long been unhabituated to this beverage of kind nature, he may, for a while, use a little bread coffee, or a lit- tle warm water, which he may sweeten, and add a little milk, if he chooses.— Neither food nor drink should be taken more than milk-warm. r Avoid tea, coffee, all fermented and distilled liquors, and tobacco,in all their Every morning, on rising, and at least an hour before breakfast, take a general bath, of some kind, from head to foot, as cool as may be, so that a gentle glow is felt a few minutes afterward. Rub oil well with a coarse towel. Those unac- customed to daily bathing may begin with water a little wanned; but let each succeeding bath be gradually reduced in temperature, till it can be used cold, at all seasons of the year. Exercise in the open, pure air, accor- ding to the state of your strength, either in a cariage, on horseback, on foot, or in gardening, agriculture, or some useful employment — but especially from tha morning bath till breakfast time. Take a rubbing foot-bath fora few minutes ev- ery night before retiring to rest. Retire early, either to a straw bed or mattress, (feather beds should be discar- ded by all,) and rise early, when the state of your strength will any way ad- mit of it. Let your bed-room, as well as sitting- room, be well ventilated. When sitting, riding, or walking, fit home or abroad, observe as erect a posi- tion as practicable, and very frequently throw the shoulders well back, and in- hale as full a breath as possible, retain- ing it a few seconds, to expand the lungs and chest. Clothe loosely, but comfortably, with linen or cotton next tho skin. Avoid all stays, corsets, and extra bandages, ex- cept when needed in cases of surgery. Always keep the nead cool, and the feet comfortably warm. Be moderate in all, even lawful, ani- mal indulgences. WILLIAM N. HUDSON M D.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131053_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
