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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    ' [ -39 ] chief; and in the evening, are feen half naked ■n the ftreet, the play-houfe, or in a cold coach Or, perhaps, after fitting in a warm room, heated „ith large fires, a number of candles, and full of people for three hours to- , gether, then, all on a fudden they walk throuo-h a cold airy gallery, and vvinding flairs, wkh currents of wind blowing up ; and afterwards be driven a mile or two in a cold coach, throu<.h » pinchuig froft, or damp midnight air. 0<-young men are equally carelefs in con. duftmg themfelves in the fame things, as well as m the,r cloathing, one minute they are in a hot crouded play-houfe, and the nextexpofed to the cold ptereing eddies, and great cuLts ot a,r that are felt round the Garden, the lar- ger ftreets, and St. Paul's; and fo indife«et is pnde that yot, feldon, fee then, in a great«,at when they are drelTed for the eveni„g,''although th^^have been wearing it almoft the whole dly Our young citizens are particularly recard- I fsofthiscrcumftance; one part of the^day they are „, a clofe warm accompting houfe - the evcnmg with light thin eloaths, with tr«ft open, and perhaps under . cou f= of ^7.