Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].

  • Samuel Foart Simmons
Date:
1780
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Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m [ 56 ] London it was almoft intirely removed. Here again we tarried about eight days, during which time the cough increafed again, though with lefs vio¬ lence than before. After that we had occaflon to ride feveral miles every day in the neighbourhood of Maid'¬ ll one, and fometimes to make long journies, by which means, without any other remedy, the cough was foon whol¬ ly removed* Notwithftanding the utility of this practice in the above cafe, it is certain that in the confirmed phthifis, when 1 1 the lungs are inflamed or ulcerated, much or violent exercife will be im¬ proper. I have had occaiion to fee more than one cafe where the death of the patient was evidently accelerated by it. The exercife therefore fliould be gentle, proportioned to the ftrength of j \ ‘ f
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