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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    will affed: the cold hand infinitely more than the warm one. This is a circumftance of the utmoft import- ance, and ought always to be care- fully attended to. When a perfon has been expofed to a fevere degree of cold for fome time, he ought to be cautious how he comes near a fire, for his excitability will be fo much accumulated, that the heat will ad: violently; often producing a great degree of inflammation, and even fometimes mortification. We may by the way obferve, that this is a very common caufe of chilblains, and other inflammations. When the hands, or any