An essay on the nature and cure of the phthisis pulmonalis, or, consumption of the lungs / by T. Reid, M.D.
- Thomas Reid
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the nature and cure of the phthisis pulmonalis, or, consumption of the lungs / by T. Reid, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Confumptive patients are very generally ordered to Briftol, to drink the waters at that place. If this journey is undertaken early in the difeafe, be- fore the patient's ftrength is exhaufted; the exercife of travelling will probably be of ufe ; and drink- ing pure light water in a clear air, highly conducive to the cure. But I am inclined to think, there is no reftorative quality in this water, fuperior to any other of equal purity and fpecific gravity. Of all the means that have been attempted to flop the progrefs of this ravaging diftemper; none have been fo often recommended, or fo highly celebrated, as riding on horfeback. The learned Sydenham, who defervedly lies upon the fame fhelf with the father of phyfic,vhad fo high an opinion of this ex- ercife, that he afferts, neither mercury in the lues venerea, nor the, cortex peruvianus in intermit- tent fevers, are more certain remedies, than riding on horfeback is in the Phthifis Pulmonalis; provid- ed the journeys are fufficiently long, and the tra- veller takes care to have his fheets well aired *. When * Neque magis Hypochondriacis prodeft hocexercitii ge- mis, quam Tabidis Phthificifque, quorum nonnulli mihi fan- guine junfti multum terrarum cquo veftore peragrantes, ex mco confilio, fanitati funt reflituti; cum certo fciam me vel medicamentis quantivis pretii, aut alia methodo, quaccunque demum eafuerit, nihil magis iifdem proficere potuifle, quam fi multis verbis hortatus fueram ut rede valercnt. Neque in levioribus tantum malis, crebra tuffi ct macie ftepatis, id refnedium obtinuit, fed ct in Tabe tantum non dcplorata, ubi no&urnis fudoribus jam ctiam accefterat Diarrhrea ifta fuperius difta, qua? Phthifi confe&is mortis prcenuntia folet effe, atque adco ut plurimum ultima rerun] linea. Verbo dicam. Quantumcunque exitialis Phthifis et fit ct audiat, utpote qua intereunt duo fere trientes eorum quos morbi Chronici jugulant, hoc tamen fan&e aflero, quod neque Mercurius in Lue. Veneria, neque Cortex Peruvianus in In- tcrraittentibus](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149884_0086.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
