The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay: containing ... instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity / [Andrew Harper].
- Harper, Andrew, -1790
- Date:
- [1789]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay: containing ... instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity / [Andrew Harper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![eule ff o.2ae | The Feet fhould be particularly attended to. The bathing of them in. warm Wa- ter helps to relieve the Head-ach, all Sorts of Colics, and nephritic Pains, and is fer- viceable in Fevers, and recent Colds. As to Clothes, it is always better, efpe- cially in this Climate, to wear too many than too few. Emaciated People recover- ing from I]lnefs fhould have Clothes made to fit clofe. Thefe would help to brace and reftore them, whereas their old loofe Clothes tend to keep them relaxed, and, at the fame Time admit too much Air. It is really extraordinary, that any Per- | fon, (yet one may meet fuch every Day) either from Vanity or Ignorance, fhould fall into a Cuftom fo repugnant to common Senfe, and his own private Feelings, as that of girding the Neck till the Eyes ftart, or of wearing Apparel fo very tight and © fafhionable, that he can neither bend, - walk, breathe, nor fpeak. Heat relaxes the Nerves and Solids, and ratifies and volatilizes the Fluids, it alfo generates](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33290660_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
