Philosophy of health : natural principles of health and cure; or, health and cure without drugs. Also, the moral bearings of erroneous appetites / by. L.B. Coles, M.D.
- Larkin B Coles
- Date:
- 1855
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Philosophy of health : natural principles of health and cure; or, health and cure without drugs. Also, the moral bearings of erroneous appetites / by. L.B. Coles, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Until this time, tin child had been robust and healthy ; but since the tobacco experi- ment, she has been continually sickly and feeble. For the first four or five years after this, she was subject to fainting-fits every three or four weeks; sometimes lasting from twelve to twenty-four hours. Many times, in those attacks, her life appeared to be in immi- nent danger. Within the last three or four years, those turns had become less severe. A medical writer has recently undertaken to show that the use of tobacco is a preventive of bronchitis. He alleges that no tobacco-user has ever been known to have that disease. It is to be feared his observations have been limited. Cases of that kind have come under my eye, even within the last few months. Indeed, a gentleman who is an intimate acquaintance of mine, in this city, once suf- fered severely from this disease, who was at that time a chewer and smoker. During my tours South and West, where this article is used to a far greater extent than in New Eng- land, morq cases than one of this kind have presented themselves. But suppose his state- ment was correct, what would be the rationale of the matter? Suppose that it was well es- tablished that men who kept themselves liter- al] v soaked in alcohol never had been known](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28090470_0384.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
