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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![B ° . Change your linen morning and evening, and when you pers- pire abundantly; wash your body either with camphorated alcohol (139) or with cologne water when the weather is cold, and with anodyne water (169) when hot and you feel feverish. Besides this lotion, have yourself rubbed with camphorated ointment (158). Those who have no assistance at hand may use a greased towel or handkerchief to rub themselves on the back. 4°. Every evening spread camphor powder (126) between the •mattrasses of your bed and those of your children; you will thus protect yourself against the invasion of nocturnal insects, which by their bites, render sleep worse than wakeful ness, and drive away the luxurious ramblings of imagination. 5 ° . Only eat at regular hours. 6°. After each meal, rest half an hour; occupy yourself after- ward at manual labor or corporal exercise; but as seldom as possi- ble with occupations of the brain. 7 ° . Resume mental labor when fasting and keep the camphorat- ed cigarette (131) in your mouth. In sedentary occupations make a constant use of the cigarette. 8 ° . Leave the table before your appetite is completely satisfied. 9 ° . Whenever you are obliged to abandon your regimen, either to give or accept a dinner, begin by a little wine in your water and arrive at pure wine only at desert. Your desert wines should be aro- matie exlixirs (48). 10°. Your dishes should be highly and agreeably spiced, [41]; condiments, elixirs or desert wines are highly vermifuge. Insipid and sugared dishes, mucilaginous and green fruits open, by all the pores, our bowels to the invasion of numberless gnawing worms, and thus produce a number of diseases of a progressive nature. Condi- ments are useful to all constitutions and all ages. Medicine has ins- pired a terror for its use; brave this timidity and use them freely ; a good digestion, believe me, will soon relieve you of such terror. 11°. Do not sit too late at night. The sleep you take during the day, is not an equivalent for the loss of your night rest; sleeplessness and asphyxy are the only advantages you reap by sitting late at night. 12 ° . Three times a day, mash under your teeth a piece of cam- phor the size of a pea (about 25 centigrammes) (122), and swallow by means of a mouthful of endive water (241) or hops water (226), or tar water (209). Take the same dose in cases of sleeplessness. Generally 25 centigrammes of camphor will give you two hours of sound sleep. 13°. This regimen by exciting appetite, would end by creating costiveness ; against this take every four or^five days 25 centigram- mes of aloes (5 pieces) (100), either between two pieces of soup bread or with a mouthful of water, and dine as usual. Before going to bed and the next morning take a large bowl of hot herb broth (104). Between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning the aloes will act, and you will then be free for the balance of the day. To certain persons this](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
