Six lectures on the functions of the lungs : and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of life : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to a hundred years : also a treatise on medicated inhalation / by Samuel Sheldon Fitch.

  • Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Date:
1859
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Credit: Six lectures on the functions of the lungs : and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of life : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to a hundred years : also a treatise on medicated inhalation / by Samuel Sheldon Fitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUESTIONS FOR INVALIDS. £*iP* As I hare had the happiness of relieving very many consumptive and othel invalids whom 1 have never seen, I subjoin a number of questions of which the in valid, wishing to consult me by letter, will please answer such as may concern him adding any further remarks that may be necessary to a clear description of his case I can then give my advice almost as successfully as though the patient wcro him« »elf present; still, if convenient, it is better that I should see hiui. j8® Persons writing me, aud wishing a reply, must encloso postage stamp, to pay re- turn postage. TO INVALID LADIES. What is your name, age, occupation, residence, so a letter may reach you] Where born and brought up] Delicate or good constitution 1 Height ] Slender or broad figure ] Fleshy or lean 1 Erect or stooping 1 Chest full and straight, or contracted, flat, and stooping] What is your measure around the waist, just above the hips] What is the color of y^ur hair, eyes, and complexion ] To what diseases are your family subject ] Any died of asthma, scrofula, heart disease, dropsy, cancer, or consumption 1 Are you subject to asthma or short breathing ]—any humor, salt rheum, or skin diseases]—any head-ache, or pain in the chest, neck, spine, shoulders, back, stomach, bowels, sides, or limbs ]—any sore throat, swelled tonsils, heat or dryness in the throat, weak voice, loss of voice, hoarseness, catarrh in head, nose, or throat 1 Any cough] —how long had it ] Do you cough up any thing ]—how much?—what kind, &c. ] When cough most ]—anM when raise most ] Ever raise blood ]—how many times ]—how much ] On which side lay best, if either ] On full breathing, do your ribs rise equally all over your chest, or do the ribs rise better on one side or part than ano- ther ] Have you daily chills, or fever, or night-sweats 1 Are you confined to your bed, or room, or the house, or do you go outdaily ] Any palpitation, >r distress at the heart, or stoppage of circulation 1 Are you nervous, or paralytic, or have fits 1 Any bad dreams, and their effects] Any dyspepsia, sour stomach, or distress, or pressure at the stomach ] After eating, does food rise ] Ever sick stomach to vomit ] Ever any sinking, exhausted, all- gone feeling at top of chest, pit of stomach, or sides, or bowels, or across you ] Appetite good, bad, or capricious ] Bowels regular, costive, or di- arrhoea] Any external, or bleeding, or blind piles, or fistula, weak back, heat in your back, or any part, hot flashes] Have a rupture] Susaeci having worms] What kind ] Any gravel or kidney complaints] Water stoppage, or free, or too much, scanty or scalding, or settlings] Cold or burning feet] Bloating anywhere] Much wind in stomach or bowels] Rheumatism or neuralgia] Any deformity ] Ever any wounds ] Lon fevers] Took much medicine, or mercury] Fever sores 1 Bilious hab- itually 1 Married or single, or widow 1 Had any children 1 Suffered miscarriages, or floodingsl Ever rise from bed feeling quite smart, but, on exercising, soon oblige1, to sit or lay down, all exhausted, c; head-ache, and