A guide for self preservation, and parental affection, or, Plain directions for enabling people to keep themselves and their children free from several common disorders / by Thomas Beddoes.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
[1793?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide for self preservation, and parental affection, or, Plain directions for enabling people to keep themselves and their children free from several common disorders / by Thomas Beddoes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ( ) undertone! thatapart may befretted or irritated, and the whole frame thrown thereby into diforder with- out our feeling any thing painful or difagreeable at the part. A thoufand intonces of this may be feen every day. But one will ferve for all. The heart in a fever fhall be fo fretted as to beat twice as often asufual; and yet no pain is felt at the heart. The kidneys work fometimes ten times as hard as at others, yet nothing is felt in our loins; only fo much the more urine is palled. In like manner the fkin is fretted and pricked by the points or piles of the woollen, and made to throw out more moifture than the body can fpare, at the fame time that the very working of the veflels to throw it out, imperceptibly wears away the ffrength. I fhould conclude, for the prefen t, with this caution againlt wearing flannel next the fkin in Summer, if I did not Hill fufpefl that you would be Hurtled at the idea of colds or catarrhs being occafioned by heat after a perfon has been ftarved. I fhall therefore give you the opinion of a much older phyfician than mylelf. T his is Dr. W iTHERiNG of Birmingham, who, in a letter 1 have received fiom him frnce Melfrs. Bulgin and Roller began to print thefe dire&ions, and which the Dr. allows me to publifh, writes as follows : “ A fudden “ change from cold external air to that in an heated room is certainly a much more frequent u caufe of inflammatory affeflionsof thelungs, See. “ than has hitherto been generally fuppofed : it fi; is, I believe, the molt general caufe of taking ;i cold.” So far the Dr. agrees with me : he differs from me a little as to the confcquences of going from an hot into a cold room, as you may have an opportunity of feeing, when I print the whole of his letter, which I fhall do foon I can quote, befides, the authority of another Phyfician of great eminence, who had better opportunities of judging of the effeft of cold and wet