Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation . Health; Chest. CTi8uiM|itlve Chest. Another pernicious practice is keeping late hours—duringthe winter season in particular—attending balls thinlyclothed, partaking of hot suppers, stimulating viands, andindulging in dancing and other excitements of the hilariousoccasions; and then leaving the heated atmosphere of thesaloon, or theatre, and going out into the storm and wintry-blasts. I am far from wishing to proscribe rational and in-nocent enjoyment, but the blessings of good health should 156 DISEASES OF T
Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation . Health; Chest. CTi8uiM|itlve Chest. Another pernicious practice is keeping late hours—duringthe winter season in particular—attending balls thinlyclothed, partaking of hot suppers, stimulating viands, andindulging in dancing and other excitements of the hilariousoccasions; and then leaving the heated atmosphere of thesaloon, or theatre, and going out into the storm and wintry-blasts. I am far from wishing to proscribe rational and in-nocent enjoyment, but the blessings of good health should 156 DISEASES OF THE LUNGS AND TI1KOAT. ever be held paramount to every consideration .of worldlypleasures and pastimes. It would occupy many pages to detail minutely the manythousand, as it were, predisposing causes of Consumption;but the matter may be summed up in a few words: thatevery excess, or irregularity of whatever kind, mental orphysical, is destructive, in a greater or lesser degree, of thenervous system; while with such destruction there mustbe that want of innervation, or nervous fo
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