A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds : with successful directions how to prevent and cure consumptions / by Thomas Hayes.

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786
Date:
1786
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Credit: A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds : with successful directions how to prevent and cure consumptions / by Thomas Hayes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    ftillk is neceffary; being co'oling, light-^ an'd nut. itious; tliey fhouid be taken in -larger quantities than is commonly crdered^ ' Tea to many conftitutions is very injurious^ efpeclally to fuch as are nervous. Where it agrees, or is particularly grateful and defifed, it .fhould. not be drank too hot, and fliouUl conlill of one half, or a third of milk. 7 To coffeCj there are alfo objeftiorvs in fomc conftitutions; but in nervous Afthma, coffee; made very firong will relieve a. fit. It was ufual for Dr. James, to order,four ounces of coffee to be boiled in a pint, of a pine and a half of water, and! a cup of it to be drank every Jialf hour, or oftener, till the fpafm abated. ' If■*f--.---,' ^ ^ - . . ■, .■'» ^ f , ii' ^ ]VliIk chocolate, or milk coffee, wfiich is not-^ iTi'adc too ftrong of the tea, or too thick with chocolate, may be taken in common, as break- faft or fupper; milk porridge, leek porridge,, &c are very proper. Dry toafled bread, with ^ honey, or fome preferve, or marmalade of ffuic, &c. may be eaten with'the tea, choc- late, &c. where tea,' or any of the above things do not agree, fome of the aromatic herbs may be