Observations on the preservation of health in infancy, youth, manhood and age. With a brief account of the principal British and continental spas and watering places / [John Harrison Curtis].

  • Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860
Date:
1842
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Credit: Observations on the preservation of health in infancy, youth, manhood and age. With a brief account of the principal British and continental spas and watering places / [John Harrison Curtis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of infants, 16. Effects of cold on the aged, 158. Colds—chief causes of, 15, 16. Healthy persons seldom sub- ject to, 159. Combe, Dr. A. — his work on Physiology quoted, on neglect of ventilation, 22. General rules for diet, from his work on Dietetics, 62 et seq. Combustion—effect of, on the air, 24. Commercial men, advice to, 65. Commercial speculation the most widely operating cause of mental excitement in this coun- try, 79. Commercial travellers, 108. Consumption — causes of, 16. Absurdity of sending persons affected with it to Italy, &c. 116. Crawling, the infant’s first and best mode of progression, 30. Cruelty to animals, Society for the suppression of, 126. Curtis, Dr., 121. Dentition, 10. Deparcieux — his statistical in- quiries referred to, 118, 175. Depressing emotions — injurious influence of, upon the body, 86, 166. Desks, 78. Desmond, Countess of, account of, 169. Diet of infants and children, 9 et seq. Diet must not be too simple, 46. Evils of adhering to a single kind of food illus- trated by the case of Dr. Stark, 47. Diet of youth, ib. Of adults, 61, 65. Of the aged, 146. Digestion—physiology of, 44. Conditions necessary for the carrying on of, 47. Disease—various opinions as to the causes of its existence, 1. One of the principal causes, the misconduct of parents, 5. En- umeration of the more im- portant causes of, 60. Sup- posed seat of, 87. Division of labour conduces to the perfection of the arts and sciences, 125. The imperfect division of the medical profes- sion one of the chief causes of the slow progress of the science of medicine, ib. The rapid im- provements effected by dentists, oculists, and aurists, adduced as proofs of the benefits that might be expected to result from a further division of me- dical labour, 127. Dogs, cruelty to, 126. Fond- ness for, ib. Dress of females, 15. Of the young generally, 54. Of the aged, 158. Drinks—best kinds of, 66. Pro- per temperature of, 72.