A dissertation on the means of preserving health, in Charleston, and the adjacent low country : read before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, on the 29th of May, 1790 / by David Ramsay, M.D. ; member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.

  • Ramsay, David, 1749-1815.
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MDCCXC [1790]
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Credit: A dissertation on the means of preserving health, in Charleston, and the adjacent low country : read before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, on the 29th of May, 1790 / by David Ramsay, M.D. ; member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of time for coming to it, and ftill more to their own imprudence, combined with the hof vitality of the inhabitants. To be invited almcfl daily to the plentiful tables of their friends and acquaint- ances, is the misfortune of fuch perfons. A fever, Tapid in its progrefs, and fatal in its ifTue, is fre- quently the confequence. Strangers coming into this country mould be doubly on their guard, but inftead thereof they too often fuffer themfelves to be feafted into fevers, and not unfrequently out of their lives. On a review of the whole fubject, it may be oblerved, th it inftead of faying, this capital is more fickly than the other maritime towns of the United States, it ought only to be faid,* <c thy more care is neceffary on the part of its inhabitants for the pieiervation of their health. By proper attention to our children, and efpe- cially by fteady, difcreet management of mo- thers, much of the mortality of infants might be prevented, and a new generation be reared, which would be much hardier and better adapted to the climate than many of the prefcnt. In fami- lies where children have been properly brought up, many of both fexes have as good conftitutions as are enjoyed by thofe who live in more northern latitudes. The honors of old age are often attained by our citizens. Indeed the chance of life to a perfon who is above fixty years old, is confiderably in favor of the inhabitants of warm countries. It muft be acknowledged, that the variablenenels and fudden changes of out atmofphere make caution indifpenfablej