The medical companion, or family physician treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure and means of prevention ... ; a dispensatory for preparing family medicines, and glossary explaining technical terms To which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body ... an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants also, the nurse's guide. Embracing a treatise on epidemic ... cholera / By James Ewell.

  • Ewell, James, 1773-1832.
Date:
1836
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Credit: The medical companion, or family physician treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure and means of prevention ... ; a dispensatory for preparing family medicines, and glossary explaining technical terms To which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body ... an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants also, the nurse's guide. Embracing a treatise on epidemic ... cholera / By James Ewell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    enlivening and rendering it more fit for performing its offices ; it also refreshes the mind, and spreads over the whole system a sensation of ease, activity, and pleasantness. It likewise removes stagnation in the larger, as well as in the smaller vessels, gives a uniform, free circulation to the blood, and preserves that wonderful harmony in our inferior organs, on the disposition of which our health and com- fort somuch depend. A person fatigued or distressed in body and mind, will derive more refreshment from the luxury of a tepid bath, and may drown. his disquietude in it more ak iis than by in- dulging in copious libations to Bacchus. _ There subsists so intimate a relation between our interior and exterior vessels, that almost every efror or irregularity in the organs within, shows itself first on the surface of the body, particularly on A face. How often are we struck with the countenance of a person who thinks himself in perfect health, but whose illness,. the result of some morbid cause, concealed in the body, justifies, in a few days, the serious apprehensions we entertained at our last in- terview? Nature has wisely ordained, that the first appearance of internal irregularities should be indicated by the countenance, but to what do we generally apply this index?. We refuse to avail. ourselves of her beneficent intimation ; and the continual use of pernicious substances, instead of promoting the object we have in view, ultimately tarnishes and impairs that beauty which we meant to adorn and preserve. The secret venom circling in her veins, Works through her skin, and bursts in bloating stains ; Her cheeks thei freshness lose, and wonted grace, oe _ And an unusual paleness spreads her face. GRANVILLE. ] bu We imagine itin our power to improve the skin, without attend- ing to the purity of the fluids, though it is indebted to them for its very existence ; and yet we should smile at a person who should at- tempt to cleanse an impure tongue by constantly scraping it, when a disordered stomach was the real cause of that impurity. . The Cellular Membrane, so called from its numerous cells, adheres very closely to the skin, running between the muscles in general, and between their several fibres in particular ; and communicating with,the membrane which lines the inside of the breast and belly. All its cells communicate with each other throughout the whole body, so that from any one part the whole may be filled with air, as is evident in beasts, from the butchers blowing up their lean meat with air when newly killed, and in emphysema, where the air from a broken nb, getting into one of the cells, forces its way into all the rest, distending the body to a frightful size; as also, in general dropsy, wherein all the cells, filled with water, may, by puncture, be emptied in the course of a night. In health this membrane is filled with an oily substance, giving an agreeable rotundity to the limbs. It is also the seat of biles, and contributes to keep the inner