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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![l 57 ] .. of the patient, and employed only m the morning. In fine weather an eafy open carriage is perhaps the moft eli¬ gible, not only on account of its being open to the air, but becaufe it affords that kind of agitation which is moil wanted in thefe cafes. For if we con- fider the different modes of exercife, we fliall find that walking, though the heft exercife in health, as it employs the moft mufcles, is the word for the fickly, who fliould have the benefit of exercife without fatigue. Riding on horfeback agitates the vifcera more than walking, and is therefore prefer¬ able to it in many chronic difeafes ; but when a preternatural determina¬ tion to the lungs has taken place, it will be liable to increafe the evil, and may like wife be hurtful by the fatigue t that attends it. For thefe reafons it will be prudent to begin with a car- H riage,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
