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.
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![this treatment. I have heard my children often cough violently >s rising-, more especially in winter ; they immediately employed the cam- phor^cigaretteand were cured in a moment. How often have I seen neglected colds of six months' duration, cured in a few days by the simple use of camphor cigarettes! Remember that a neglected cold is nothing but a cold illy treated. Physicians w ill keep it up with lochs, juleps, dfet or mucilaginous regimen, mallows and other pastes ; it is by such means that a simple cold is very often brought to a pulmonary phthisis. I have extended this article more than the work permits, because I will have occasion to refer other analogous diseases to this chapter. Cephalalgia see megrim Carbuncles see pimples Chlorosis see jaundice 279. Cholera morbus, yellow fever and other diseases of an analogous character. Causes.—The invasion of the alimentary canal and especially the tinum tenue by hordes of small larvas, which I class by analogy in the order of flies. Effects.—The intestinal coating being disorganised by the fright- ful effects of the disease, the blood thickens and coagulates; the tis- sues become thin and dried up ; the forced contraction of the stomach produces vomitting of black matter: the colon obeying the same me- canism ejects noxious matter; the limbs are agitated by convulsive movements ; the body becomes black, thin, dried up and assumes has the appearance of a mummy. Treatment.—Unfortunate will be the patient who falls in the hands of expectative medicine ! How unfortunate will the population be, if scholastic medicine is yet imbued with antiphlogistical princi- ples ! The mortality will be incalculable and the population will be daily decimated. During the period of cholera I was not at liberty, but in our prisons, none were treated according to the principles of the faculty, and it was fortunate for us. I had a companion of captivity, well educated, who in a spirit of contradiction glutted himself with garlic, pepper, leeks, onions, turnips and finally of every thing the faculty prohibited at that period. His example was followed by many others. The whole of my companions braved the cholera with impunity and in spite of medi- cine, without knowing it. If ever cholera should return, I declare my belief that it conld be arrested without much trouble by our treatment. The officers employed in our colonies have already stated through the press the facility with which they cure and preserve themselves from yellow dver, by following the prescriptions of our small diary. Many cap- tains have provided themselves with our medical chest [97] in or- der to have at hand remedies for themselves and crew ; one of them has ordered a monstrous chest.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
