Popular medical errors / [James Bower Harrison].

  • Harrison, James Bower
Date:
1851
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Credit: Popular medical errors / [James Bower Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ordinary causes, the question further arises, Can there be a high combustibility of the body? On this point there is not time to enter fully, as so many subjects have to come before us. I may state, however, that many very respectable authorities admit it as possible that the body may be pretcrnaturally combustible, amongst whom I may mention Dr. Alfred Taylor of Guy’s Hospital. MILK. ]\Iilk forms a very nutritious and digestible article of food, and on many occasions medical men have to recommend it as the best adapted for the exigencies of the case in point. There is an opinion, however, very common, which I Imagine to be in a great measure erroneous, that milk produces phlegm, and is therefore very much to be avoided in all cases of cougrbs. I will not undertake to say that milk is always proper for Invalids; but I must say that I re- gard this peculiar phlegm-producing quality of milk to be in a great measure a bugbear, which does not deserve a serious consideration. I can conceive it very possible that persons of a pie-
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