Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier.
- François-Vincent Raspail
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![xr all invisible causes, which strike as suddenlly as a thunderbolt or devour and undermine our constitution as a piercing and slow poison. There is not a single disease which cannot be explain id by either of the nine hypotheses I have enumerated above. Butjthemost fruitful in evils of all descriptions, the one which has the greatest sha*ein our afflictions is the eighth. The parasital influence of infinitismala is the cause of nine tenths of our diseases ; it is aga nst this mani- fold cause of our several diseases that we have specially directed the treatment to which we owe so many fortunate results. CHAPTER II. Curative and hyegenic means to preserve or cure oursf.l- VES OF THE EFFECTS OF THE FIKST CAUSE OF OUR DISEASES I THE PRIVATION OR ALTERATION OF THE ELEMENTS WHICH FORM THE AIR WE BREATHE. • 15. 1°. Select a house exposed to the sun, free from river or pond emanations and from those of manufactories or other insalu- brious trades. Do not live on the ground floor, owing to its humidity, nor bet- ween two floors or attics, their small height would expose you to breathe only the air com ng out of the lungs ; but choose lire rooms, with elevated ceiling and windows at the east, south and of necessity at the west. 3 ° . Recommend keeping your bed room well ventilated during the day and free from any odoriferous smells which might vitiate the air. The bedstead should be washed often in all the joints with camphorated alcohol [139] by means of a brush or goose quill. 5 ° . Recommends the substitution ot hammocks to the pile of beds now in use. 6°. When your room is heated by a stove never shut the key of the pipe, for the cirbonic acid rinding no longer an issue through the pipe will spread through the room and torture your slumbers, when the room is large enough to prevent your total asphyxiation. Besides, the air being vitiated and deprived of its oxygen by the progressive oxidation of the metallic pipes, it will no longer he carried by the cur- rent 0. air, thus adding a dose of asphyxy to the preceding intoxication. Beware of burnirg coals in a chimney where the wind returns. 7 ° . Recommends the construction of new stoves which would scarcely be suited to this country. 9 ° . The heat of chimneys is much preferable to stoves. 10°. Smill lamilies who cook in smallovens should be careful, for asphyxy may be brought en without their perceiving it. 11 ° . Privies should be kept well washed with chloride of lime and the same liquid used whenever a collection «ot putrid matter is con- gregated. Purify your bed rooms by burning vinegar over a red hot shovel or lighting a fire in the chimney.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
