Thermal comfort; or, popular hints for preservation from colds, coughs, and consumption / [Sir George Lefevre].

  • George William Lefevre
Date:
1844
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Credit: Thermal comfort; or, popular hints for preservation from colds, coughs, and consumption / [Sir George Lefevre]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. REMEDIAL INFLUENCE OF WARMTH. It has been our object to direct the attention of the delicate, and such as are predisposed to pulmonary disorders, to avoid such causes as may tend to call dormant disease into action or to hasteij its progress; and the most stress has been laid to this effect upon what we have designated Thermal Comfort. We must not be understood to signify, that where tubercular phthisis does really exist, that confinement to warm chambers will be sufficient to cure it, or wholly arrest its progress. We have seen the experiment fail, and cannot recommend total exclusion from atmospheric air in the treatment of these disorders. This is by no means necessary, nor is it attended with any good consequences ; for the inhalation of pure
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