A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds; with successful directions how to prevent and cure consumptions / By T. Hayes.

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786
Date:
1786
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds; with successful directions how to prevent and cure consumptions / By T. Hayes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f s ] THE f P R E F A C E. IT is bhheceiTary to inform the Public, that great numbers of perfons of both fexes, are afflicted every Winter with rnoft dreadful colds, coughs, and con- fumptive complaints^ in this great me¬ tropolis, and in every large town in this kingdom, from the negledting of flight colds in their early fl:ate. But common as this cafe is, the truth of which mofl: men acknowledge^ is it not flrange that • it fhould not be ftriking enough to enforce a ftrldter attention to it than is paid in common? For its confequences are not lefs (to fpeak within c^ompafs) than an annual lofs of twenty thoufand perfons in the ifland of Great Britain; befides B th®