A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to keep cool, and avoid wine and ftrong liquors, and confine themfelves for a fhort time to a fimple diet of vegetable food, drinking only toafi: and water. Inftances are by no means uncommon, where a heat of the noftrils, difficulty of breathing, a fhort, tickling cough, and other fymptoms, threatening a violent cold, have gone off entirely in confequence of this plan being purfued. Colds would be much lefs fre- quent, were we to take more pains to accommodate our drefs to the fea- fon : if we were warmly clothed in cold