The practical physician for travellers, whether by sea or land, giving directions how persons on voyages and journies, may remedy the diseases incident to them : to which is annex'd, a genuine letter from Dr. Radcliffe, to the late Duke of Ormonde ... concerning his health, and medicines for him conducive thereto / By a member of the College of Physicians, author of the Family companion for health, to which piece this treatise is intended for a supplement, and compleats the whole design.

  • Strother, Edward, 1675-1737.
Date:
1729
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Credit: The practical physician for travellers, whether by sea or land, giving directions how persons on voyages and journies, may remedy the diseases incident to them : to which is annex'd, a genuine letter from Dr. Radcliffe, to the late Duke of Ormonde ... concerning his health, and medicines for him conducive thereto / By a member of the College of Physicians, author of the Family companion for health, to which piece this treatise is intended for a supplement, and compleats the whole design. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Life obliges them to travel by Sea or Land, or encamp, may know whether they are likely to be well treated or not by fuch as are called to affift them. For all the World upon travelling change their Manner of Living, by conform¬ ing to that of the Countries through which they travel, or by being obliged to take up with fuch Fare as the Places they are obli- . ged to travel through afford them, which, if they had lived at home, they could have ealily avoided, fince they well know how to provide according to their own Liking and Tafte, as well as know what us'd to agree with them ; and there are very few or none that are not very well apprized how dangerous all fudden Changes are in our Way of Living, and what may not be faid of Perfons obliged to travel or encamp, when they have no Opportunities to provide againft the Evils of the Day : If therefore at any time a Fault be committed in our common Regulation of Life, which makes us fuffer feverely for it, what have we not to dread from a continued Series of Miflakes, which .our Neceflities oblige us to commit upon the Roads or in Camps ? which is too evi¬ dent to be difputed. The Places we travel through, the Change of Air, the unufual Diet we meet with, the various Sorts of Liquor, the Seafons of Travelling, our fit¬ ting up late, and riling early, the various Fatigues