The oeconomy of health : or, a medical essay: containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity: in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper.

Date:
[1785?]
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Credit: The oeconomy of health : or, a medical essay: containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity: in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Colds bring on Fevers, Inflammations of the Throat and Lungs, Pleurifies, Con- fumptions, Rheumatifms, Colics, Dia- rrhoeas, Piles, Palfy, &c. and are often fo ferious in their Confequences, that no Body fhould venture to trifle with Colds, even in a flight Degree. In fevere, recent Colds that affedt the Breaft, Bleeding fhould be almofl invari- ably reforted to, and the Perforation re- ftored by every Means, except fuch as are of too heating a Nature : In Colds which attack the Head, the Regimen ought not be too low, leaft the Complaint fhould defcend upon the Lungs. To wear foft Flannel next the Skin can- not be too ftrongly recommended to thofe who labour under any Affection of the Lungs, or Weaknefs of the Bowels. The fame Expedient will be found ferviceable in the Rheumatifm, and in all fcorbutic, dropfical, hypocondriac and melancholic Complaints. In