Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . rly all the best authors on these affections, and several distin-guished medical men speak of the advantage which they have per-sonally derived from it. Sir Astley Cooper makes the followingobservation with regard to this practice: 670 DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES, The methods by which I preserve my own health are tem-perance, early rising, and sponging my body every morning withcold water immediately after get
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . rly all the best authors on these affections, and several distin-guished medical men speak of the advantage which they have per-sonally derived from it. Sir Astley Cooper makes the followingobservation with regard to this practice: 670 DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES, The methods by which I preserve my own health are tem-perance, early rising, and sponging my body every morning withcold water immediately after getting out of bed, a practice whichI have adopted for thirty years; and though I go from the hottheatre into the squares of the hospital, in the severest winternights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely everhave a cold. INHALATIONS. Of late years the practice of taking medicine by inhalation hasbeen revived, and has now resumed some of its former styles of apparatus have recently been devised that enableus to administer a large variety of medicines in the form of cold orhot spray. One of these is represented in the accompanying STEAM ATOMIZER (INHALER). There is no question that much good may be accomplished byinhalations; but their importance has, I think, by some been over-estimated. They are of decided assistance in the treatment ofdiseases of the larynx and bronchial tubes. They afford relief incroup. They have been used as a means of relief in consumption. Inhalation is to many a very agreeable mode of taking medicine,and on that account patients are sometimes inclined to over-estimatetheir value—to form too extravagant hopes of their efficacy. Charlatans have availed themselves of this popularity of inhala-tions, and have terribly deceived the people. They have professedto cure incurable diseases, have held out false hopes, and fleecedthe unsuspecting. AND MOST EECENT METHODS OF TREATMENT. 671 The people should understand that
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