An enquiry into the nature causes and method of cure of nervous disorders : in a letter to a friend.

  • Alexander Thomson
Date:
1782
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Credit: An enquiry into the nature causes and method of cure of nervous disorders : in a letter to a friend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    digedion, facilitate deep, and reftore to the conditution the poffible degree of drensrth. Both the kind and duration O of exercife mud: be fuited to the date of the patient. The mod: beneficial is riding on horfe-back. Whatever be the exercife, carefully is fatigue to be avoid- ed ; which not only retards the cure, but excites palpitations and fpafins of different parts, with variety of uneafi- nefs. In thofe circumdances, fetid me- dicines have peculiar power. Of ufe they may be alfo to allay the craving of the domach, to which nervous perfons are frequently fubjedb. But this fymp- tom finds, perhaps, no better remedy than a crud of bread, or any thing more folid. A dry air, temperately cool rather than warm, is mod favorable to the cure of nervous diforders. If ever the Peruvian bark be preferable to cold-bathing, it is during a mold date of the atmofphere. At