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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![fier.” 3]: Colds bring on Fevers, Inflammations of the Throat and Lungs, Pleurifies, Con- fumptions, Rheumatifms, Colics, Dia- rrhceas, Piles, Palfy, &c. and are often fo ferious in their Confequences, that no Body fhould venture to trifle with Colds, even ina flight Degree. In fevere, recent Colds that affect the Breaft, Bleeding fhould be almoft invari- | ably reforted to, and the Per{piration re- {ftored by every Means, except fuch as are of too heating a’ Nature: In Colds which attack the Head, the Regimen ought not. be tco low, leaft the Complaint fhould defcend upon the Lungs. To wear foft Flannel next the Skin can- not be too firongly recommended to’ thofe who labour under any AffeGtion of the . Lungs, or Weaknefs of the Bowels. The fame Expedient will be found ferviceable in the Rheumatifm, and in all fcorbutic, dropfical, hypocondriac and melancholic Complaints. In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33290660_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
