On consumption, coughs, colds, asthma, and other diseases of the chest : their remedial and avertive treatment; addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, with copious observations on the diet and regimen necessary for invalids ; also an appendix, containing upwards of two hundred formulæ of the latest and most approved remedies, many valuable domestic recipes, and full directions for the practice of inhalation / by R. J. Culverwell.

  • Culverwell, Robert James, 1802-1852.
Date:
1834
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Credit: On consumption, coughs, colds, asthma, and other diseases of the chest : their remedial and avertive treatment; addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, with copious observations on the diet and regimen necessary for invalids ; also an appendix, containing upwards of two hundred formulæ of the latest and most approved remedies, many valuable domestic recipes, and full directions for the practice of inhalation / by R. J. Culverwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    VALEDICTORY OBSERVATIONS. To the reader who has travelled thus far with me. I would tender a word at parting. In ushering this little volume before the world I am conscious ot having deviated somewhat from professional etiquette, in not addressing my medical brethren rather than the public. I would fain justify this “ breach of decorum.” Society at large are already so familiarised with pathological details that it is probable medicine may at no very distant period be taught in our schools as an indis- pensable branch of education, and eventually with the other liberal sciences be exercised only as an honorary profession. Independent, however, of this consider- ation, it is a great advantage to the medical attendant, whose object must necessarily be the speedy cure of his patient, when the families he visits have sufficient acquaintance with physiology to assist him in regard to the diagnosis of disease, and to follow up his views by judicious domestic treatment. To afford facilities tor this, rather than to supersede medical opinion, is, as 1 have already stated, the object of this publication. In my wish for its extensive circulation, it will by some be perceived that I adopt the method (nearly unique in