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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    wet than mod men. This is Sir John Pr ingle, who attended the army, as phydcian, during one of our German wars. He was of opinion that rheumatifms and catarrhs ('coldsJ are not produced by cold or moidure, becauie he often law num- bers of men, nay, whole regiments, foaked to the fkin, without rheumatifm or catarrh being in a dngle indance produced. Thus Sir John found abundant reafon for believing that thefe diforders are not produced by cold alone, as is commonly fuppoied. But he went no further. He did not fee that the mifehief arifes from heat or other stimulants applied too quickly afterwards. Now, my good Readers, you may have taken notice, that there are three things zohich almojl every perfon gives himfelf credit for under/landing, whether he has taken any pains to make himfelf mafler of them or not, Thefe arc 1. The art of mending a dull fire 2. Poli- tics : and 3. Phyfic. Since, therefore, you will needs have your notions, right or wrong, concerning health and dif- eafe, 1 confidered it as a commendable aElion to offer y$u fuch as I believe to be jufier than thofe you com- monly entertain, I have often had occafion to remark that thofe very notions which medical people have long fince cafit off as being erroneous, are at this moment current among others—to the no fmall detriment of themfelves and their friends, as well as to the vexation and hindrance of thofe who art called in to cure them, .when they are ill, END. '■Of the fame Bookfellers may be had, price 3d. The Hijlory of Ifaac 'Jenkinst By the fame Author.