Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy, or, Passages in the life of a hydropathist . but that inwhich exercise may be taken with impunity, on every day inthe year, in which we are neither congealed by intense cold,nor dissolved by insufferable heat. Our naval and military exploits, during the last war,cannot be too highly estimated. By the exertions of theBritish nation, a great end was accomplished; but, at what a 6 HINTS TO THE SICK, useless expense of blood and treasure, whilst the same resultsmight have been attained with so much facility, and in a farmore scientific manner, by pharmace
Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy, or, Passages in the life of a hydropathist . but that inwhich exercise may be taken with impunity, on every day inthe year, in which we are neither congealed by intense cold,nor dissolved by insufferable heat. Our naval and military exploits, during the last war,cannot be too highly estimated. By the exertions of theBritish nation, a great end was accomplished; but, at what a 6 HINTS TO THE SICK, useless expense of blood and treasure, whilst the same resultsmight have been attained with so much facility, and in a farmore scientific manner, by pharmaceutical means, had weleft the whole matter in the hands of the faculty, had weemployed against the enemy those annoyances which welevelled against our own fellow-countrymen, had we onlypersuaded the foe to swallow the drugs which Britons volun-teered to consume. In a future struggle, an improved system might beadopted, and our doctors might be occupied in killing ourenemies, instead of destroying the lieges. The head of thearmy need not be styled Physicker-General; but, retaining the. old term of Commander-in-Chief, he should be a stern , LAME, AND LAZY. of acknowledged talent, and unyielding disposition. Nor doI wish that the title of Secretary at War, should be changedto Apothecary at War, though the last would express hisavocations more definitely than the other; he, however, mustbe a man of a decided and determined stamp, not easy tobe cajoled, whilst he is of a plastic nature, able to assume the soft sawder, in order to induce those opposed to him toswallow his drugs. Both these dignitaries will be strengthenedin their high stations, by the remembrance of the great anddeserved respect paid to the faculty on all occasions, and theunswerving obedience with which their orders are will only cite one example; it occurred in one of our navalengagements, when the French had been attacked after ourfamed old fashioned method. Many gallant fellows hadfallen, and many mor
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