Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].
- Samuel Foart Simmons
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![> / [ 55 ] with found teeth, and of a countenance that feemed to indicate a predifpofi- tion to phthifis. He was attacked at Edinburgh in the month of December with a dry cough, which became alarm¬ ing by its obftinacy and violence, hav¬ ing refilled a variety of remedies for upwards of a fortnight. At the end of that time we mounted our horfes and proceeded towards the fouth. On the third day we reached Morpeth, and the lad’s cough was already abated; but having flopped there for the fpace of five or fix days, it gained ground again, fo as to be as violent as at firft. On our way from Morpeth to London we travelled at the rate of thirty and * l'ometimes forty miles a day, the weather being all the time extremely cold, and accompanied with a flight fall of fnow, and yet the cough every day grew better; fo that when we had reached London](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
