On excision of the enlarged tonsil, and its consequences in cases of deafness with remarks on diseases of the throat / [William Harvey].

  • Harvey, William, 1806-1876.
Date:
1850
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    be some counteracting causes to protect the lower orders. It is in this very labour that they possess a safeguard for the protection of their health; for the great friction of the skin which the clothes of workmen produce on the surface of the body insures to them the power of resisting many of the dele- terious influences of cold and wet. The hard- working man, if he avoids irregularities in living, may, with all his privations, enjoy a good share of health and long life. I think the use of the brush is very contributary to the preservation of health, and that it has a singular eflicacy when employed in scrofula.* SCROFULOUS SORE-THROAT. In the 26th volume of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Mr. Hamilton, among his cases of hospital practice, states, that he observed of late several cases of sore throat, which, judging from their particular characters, their long duration, and * It is now well known to all experienced and scientific physicians, that chronic functional diseases of long standing can only be thoroughly cured by such general and comprehensive means as act on the whole system, and for a certain period of time influencing the nutrition in its source, not merely by the supply of wholesome elements, but by keeping the nutrient function active and vigorous over the entire fabric, by an agree- able distribution of blood and nervous influence, and consequent energetic action of all the secreting organs.—Dr. Forbes's Physician's Holiday. G 2