A serious and friendly address to the public, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds so frequent in this climate : containing, a simple, efficacious, and domestic method of cure, necessary for all families / by a gentleman of the faculty.

  • Hayes, Thomas
Date:
1783
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A serious and friendly address to the public, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds so frequent in this climate : containing, a simple, efficacious, and domestic method of cure, necessary for all families / by a gentleman of the faculty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    I 33 ] • No body of men enjoy better health than iEoachmcn and chairmen, who ^o through every vIcilTitude of weather, and we attribute it to their going fo warmly cloathed as they do; and their health would be ftill more permanent, if they had not a bad cuftom of drinking warm purl, and other warm drinks, and immediately after going into the cold air; whereas a glafs of any fpirits, or a pint of cold flrong beer, fortify the body againft cold much more, becaufe the warm df inks open the pores, and the cold ones do not* We are forry to fee fo many abfurd faflii- ons invented for my fair country-women, fraught with fo much danger to their health, and of courfc to their beauty. If they are to wear great hoops,. Ihort flays, and petty eoats uj) to their knees, they require warm jQannel drawers, and warm under coverings to keep them from the influence of cold. It is a matter of fame furprife, that delicate as they really are, more mifchief does not accrue from fuch modes of drefling. In a morning, they are wrapped up, with clofe warm gowns, aad the face, neck, and chefl, carefully guard- ed from cold by a warm cap and handker- chief ;