Volume 1

The works .... / [John Huxham].

  • Huxham, John, 1692-1768
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works .... / [John Huxham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Coldnefs and Drynefs of the Air, which had rendered the Fibres too tenfe, and the Blood more denfe than it ought to he.-Hippocrates Jong fince noted that cold northerly Winds created Coughs and Pains of the Side and Bread, Aphorifm v. Seed. 3.—And I have alfo very often noted that the drier the Seafon the lefs the Expeftoration, and the greater Difficulty in clearing the Lungs from the Matter, that loaded them, which however is unqueftionably of the higheft Importance in pulmonic Difor- ders ; Scarce any Peripneumony is happily cured but by a large and free Expectoration. And there is nothing that promotes that Dif- charge more effectually than drinking freely and frequently of feme warm antiphlogiftic, nitrous, and gently detergent Liquor, efpe- cially after Bleeding to a due Qiiantity : But, if this doth not anfwer Expectation, Gum Am- moniac, Squill Medicines, the oily and de- tergent, proper Mercurials, and fometimes Vo- latiles, are to be added. But the Drinking of warm, nay hot Diluents is always neceffary, efpecially in a very dry Conftitution of the At- mofphere ; for the very Vapour of it foments and relaxes the Lungs, and the Liquor keeps the Blood in a due Fluidity.—This Drinkino- of fervid Liquors (fays Baglivi) is a Secret with me in diffolving obftinate Obftructions and Vifeidities i© epidemic and malignant Pleuri- fies,