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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    Fatigues of our Mind, and fo many acci¬ dental and unaccuftomed Changes, do Tra¬ vellers, even if they be Princes, meet with, that it is impoffible almoft for them to bear them without Injury* Wherefore I fhall in thefe Sheets take a particular Account of all the Miftakes of Travellers, that it may the better appear how Difeafes arile from thence to fuch as are under the Ne« ceffity of Travelling. But left any Confufion ftiould happen in thefe few Sheets to my Readers, I fhall begin from the Injuries Travellers receive from the Air, which is fo continually drawn into the Lungs, that Health greatly depends upon its Goodnefs and Salubrity : If therefore this Fluid lhould recede from its native Purity, and lhould exceed in any of the fenfible Qualities ; if, for Example, it lhould exceed in Pleat or Coldnefs, in Humidity or Drought, then does it give occafton to the Production of many Difeafes j and as our Journeys are not always chofen, but taken at all Hazards, namely, once a Voyage or Journey is begun, we are under a Neceflity of going forwards whether the Weather be fair or foul, whether it fnows or rains, be hot or moift, whatever Steams the Air be infected with ; nay, our very Lodgings are not in our Choice, fince we may be benighted or wet, we are to take fuch Accommodations as are allotted us by B 2 the