On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell.

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1881
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Credit: On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tive.—Special Nutritive.—Cocoa and Egg.—Invalid Soup.—Com- binations of Alimentary Principles in Normal Propoitions. — Poit Wine Jelly.—Suet and MUk.—Milk with Rum, &c. — Nutritive Encmata. — Nutritive Mixture. — Cerealin Tea. — Poultices and Poulticing hj Steam.—Inhalations.—Nash's Bronchitis Kettle.— Warm Baths. —Lights in the Sick-room.—Nursing Schedule . 1.50 1?ART II.—0.\ THE Interdependence and Prevention of Diseases AND the Diminution of their Fatality. Chapter IX. The Duties of Medical Men.—The Interdependence of Diseases shew- ing the importance of Periodical Examinations. . . . IGo Chapter X.—An.umia . . . . . . . .186 Chapter XI.—Fatty Degeneration 192 Chapter XII.—Abnormal Physiological States . . . 201 APPENDIX. Alcohol.—Experiments on the effects of Alcohol on the Human Body. —Dust and Disease.—Special Action of the Pancreas on Fat and Starch.—Importance and Dangers of Rest in Pulmonary Consump- tion.—On the Digestibility of Gelatine-yielding Tissues.—Nutritive Enemata 209 OPINIONS OP THE PRESS ON THE FIRST EDITION. This is a very elaborate and carofiilly compiled book. The rules of rogimen .iro judicious; and they are followed by a laborious series of tables, and all tlio per- centages of aliniontarv principles in various articles of diet are calculated quantita- tively and tiualitalivoly. so that in sucli tables the reader sees precisely the amount as well as the quality of elements of growth which each dietary gives.—Zance<. In tlie matter of many of the prime necessaries of life—food and ventilation for example — all society, even the most educated, is daily deeply sinning. May some of these sinners mid Dr. Dobell's book, become wiser, and increase their days by living more after the laws of hygiene and common sense.—Bntisk Medical Journal. An exposition of the hygienic questions relative to ventilation, heating, sleep, exercise, posture, bathing, regulation of the bowels, rest and change, meals, etc., in addition to the all-inqiortant subject of diet. . . The rules seem to ns very judicious. . . . The alcohol table is most ingenious. . . We report f.ivounibly of the idea which onr author has broached, and of the manner in which he has brought it forward.— Dublin Medical Press. We feel a sense of gratitude to the author of this manual for the able man- ner in whicli he lifis grappled witli the difficulties surroundmg this question. . . The handy character of Dr. Dobell's work is one of its great recommendations.— Medical ilirror. The book before us is intended alike to simiilify and lessen the labour of tlio physician in giving the needful instructions in diet and regimen for the daily and special guidance of his patient, and to supply those important hygienic rules for the preservation of health of which no person shoulii bo ignorant. . . In bringing out this very useful and concise work. Dr. Pobcll has undertaken to fill npavcrynii- portant ga]) in scientific literature; ... it commends itself with great force to all classes ; and we recommend it most cordially in the broadest acceptation of the word to all readers.—<Socirt/ Science Kevieir.