Consumption : how to prevent it, and how to cure it : [prospectus] / by James C. Jackson.

  • Jackson, James C., 1811-1895.
Date:
[1862?]
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Credit: Consumption : how to prevent it, and how to cure it : [prospectus] / by James C. Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    €amum$tian: HOW TO PREYENT IT, AND HOW TO CURE IT. BY JAMES C. JACKSON, M.D. Contents. There are two kinds of Consumption, — that which is called Tubercular, or Pulmonary; and that which is termed Mesenteric, or Bowel Consumption. TUBERCULAR OR PULMONARY CONSUMPTION: WHAT CAUSES IT? a. hereditary constitution j or inherited predisposition, transmitted to the Infant by its Parents, thet having — (6) Scrofulous Diathesis. (c) Impairment of the Constitution by Drug-taking. (d) Exhaustion by Sexual Indulgence. (e) Difference in Age. (/) Close Intermarriage. B. Causes growing out op the Habits of Living op the Parents ; as — (a) Unwholesome Food; Unhealthy Drinks,—as Impure Water, Mineral or Medicated Water, Tea, Coffee, Distilled Liquors, Fermented Liquors, &c. (b) Causes operating on the Mother during Pregnancy. C. Causes which are not Congenital, but induced after Birth ; such as — (a) Unhealthy Milk while Nursing. (A) Improper Food in Childhood. (c) Impure Air in Day-time, in Shops, Churches, Factories. \d) Sleeping with Consumptive Persons in the same Bed. (e) Working in close Rooms with them, and breathing the Exhalations from their Lungs and Bodies. (/) In-door Employment, active and sedentary. Want of Out-of-door Exercises. (?) Want of Light and Sunshine, and the Effect of Climate. (h) Dress, — for Day and Night, and with Reference to different Parts of the Body. D. Mental Causes: — (a) Study, too close, too protracted, too monotonous, and in bad postures. (6) Lack of Recreation and Amusements. (c) Social Intercourse of the Sexes. (d) Unhappy Marriages, Failures in Business, Disappointed Affections. E. Causes arising from Pre-existing Disease, or of the Respiratory Organs ; as — (a) Influenza, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Whooping-cough, Hemorrhage of the Lungs. P. Skin-Diseases : — (a) Measles, Small-pox, Scarlet-fever, Vaccination, Salt-rheum.