. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. r\ •^ « € in cc UlX ho cc mwh ( 91 ) It may be of interest if I quote from The English Malady, orTreatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds, by G. Cheyne (1733), thefamous case of Colonel Townshend. Case of the Hon. Colonel Totvnshend.—Colonel Townshend, a gentleman of excellentnatural parts, and of great honour and integrity, had for many years been afflicted with anephritick complaint, attended with constant v
. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. r\ •^ « € in cc UlX ho cc mwh ( 91 ) It may be of interest if I quote from The English Malady, orTreatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds, by G. Cheyne (1733), thefamous case of Colonel Townshend. Case of the Hon. Colonel Totvnshend.—Colonel Townshend, a gentleman of excellentnatural parts, and of great honour and integrity, had for many years been afflicted with anephritick complaint, attended with constant vomitings, which had made his life painfuland miserable. During the whole time of his illness, he had observed the strictestregimen, living on the softest vegetables and lightest animal foods, drinking asss milkdaily, even in the camp : and for common drink Bristol water, which, the summer beforehis death, he had drunk on the spot. But his illness increasing, and his strengthdecaying, he came from Bristol to Bath in a litter, in autumn, and lay at the Bell Baynard (who is since dead) and I were called to him, and attended him twice a dayfor about the space of a wee
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