The medical side of Benjamin Franklin / by William Pepper.

  • William Pepper
Date:
1911
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Credit: The medical side of Benjamin Franklin / by William Pepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or acquire due Thinness, is too weighty for their Force, whence a slow Motion—then viscidity. This Repletion is increased by a Constipation of the Belly happening at the same time. In an approaching cold, more water is made than usual. By cooling suddenly in the Air after Exercise. Exercise quickening the Circulation, produces more perspirable Matter in a given time, than is produced in rest. And tho’ more io likewise usually discharg’d during Exercise, yet on sudden quitting of Exercise and standing in the Air, the Circulation and Production of Perspirable matter still continuing some time, the over Quantity is retain’d. It is safer not to go into water too cold. 4. By particular Effluvia in the Air, from some unknown Cause. General Colds thro’-out a Country. By being in a Coach close, or small Room with a Person having a Cold. 5. By Relaxation of the Solids, from a warm and moist Air, so that they are too weak to give due Motion to the Fluids. Of partial Colds affecting parts only of the Body. Causes of Feverishness attending Colds. Ill Consequences often attending Colds, as Pleurisies, Consumptions, etc. Some never take cold, some frequently; causes of the Difference. Present Remedies for a Cold should be warming, diluting, bracing. Means of preventing Colds: Temperance, Choice of Meats and Drinks, warm* Rooms, and Lodging, and Clothing in Winter, dry Air, Care to keep the Belly open, and frequent discharge of Water, warm Bathing to cleanse the Skin, rubbing after Sweat, especially in the Spring. Difficulties that first put me on thinking on this Subject. People get cold by less, and not by more, viz. By putting on a damp Shirt on a dry Body, Yes. By putting on a dry Shirt on a wet Body, tho’ this wets the shirt ten times more, No. By sitting in a Room, where the Floor has been newly wash’d, Yes. By going into a River, and staying there an Hour (no Sheets so wet), No. By wetting the feet only, Yes. By wetting all the Clothes thro’ to the Body, and wearing them a whole day. No. By sitting in a Room against a Crevice, Yes.
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