Volume 1

A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention cure of consumptions / the fourth edition. To which are added observations on the hooping [sic] cough and asthma.

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786
Date:
1786
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention cure of consumptions / the fourth edition. To which are added observations on the hooping [sic] cough and asthma. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PREFACE. IT is unneceflary to inform the Public; that great numbers of perfons of both fexes, are afflicted every Winter with moft dreadful colds, coughs, and con- fumptive complaints, in this great me¬ tropolis, and in every large town in this kingdom, from the neglecting of flight colds in their early ftate. But common as this cafe is, the truth of which moffc men acknowledge, is it not ftrange that it {hould not be ftriking enough to enforce a ftriCter attention to it than is paid in common? For its confequences are not lefs (to fpeak within compafsj than an annual lofs of twenty thoufand perfons in the ifland of Great Britain; befides B the