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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    there was an ellipsis in the sentence, and that it should be understood as a brief way of saying, “ Stuff a cold, and you will have to starve a fever;” that is, if you do not refrain from ge- nerous living during a cold, ten to one you will set up a fever in which you will have to abstain altogether. This is certainly a more sensible readino; of it. The next proverb is, that “ Twilight is the blind man’s holiday.” At first it would seem a ridiculous saying, because if w.ant of light is to excuse us from work, a blind man must have a perpetual holiday. The proverb no doubt relates to the well-known fact, that a man with a cataract can sec better in the twilight. This is very easily explained; for in the softened light called twilight, the pupil of the eye expands, and as the diseased lens which intercepts the light is chiefly opaque in the centre, it follows that the rays of light are in some degree admitted when the pupil is fully dilated. BONES BRITTLE IN WINTER. Accidents frequently happen in winter-time from the slippery state of the roads; but there
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