Guide to invalids : a manual for persons using the remedies of S.S. Fitch.

  • Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876.
Date:
[1850?]
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Credit: Guide to invalids : a manual for persons using the remedies of S.S. Fitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    svu) >3 GUIDE TO INVALIDS : A MANUAL FOR PERSONS USING THE REMEDIES OF 8. S. FITCH, It. !>., Office, No. 701 Broadway, New-York. The greatest possible, gift of Godto man, after reason, is heal'! and with it long life. To have health, it is necessary to attend to all the circumstances and symptoms that may impair it. Recollect that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. To be fully intelligent on the subject of health, begin by reading faithfully and attentively Dr. Fitch's Six Lectures on the Prevention and Cure of Pulmonary Consumption, Asthma, and Diseases of the Heart; on the Laws of Longevity and the Mode of Preserving Male and Female Health to one hundred years. The reading of this book, and careful attention to its teachings, cured 5.000 persons, at least, of pulmonary consumption the first year of its publication. The cost ofthis book is 50 cents in paper binding, and 75 cents in beautiful gilt and muslin binding. Every family should possess this book, every person should read it. It is a true and faithful guide to all consumptives, to all invalids, and all who wish health and long life. Sixty thousand copies were sold the first year of its publica- tion. It may be sent by mail to any part of the United States. The postage is 8£ cents on the 50 cent books. Aw many of my patients desire more explicit directions, I will make a few remarks upon the remedies I use for the cure and prevention of consumption, catarrh, bronchitis, throat diseases, heart diseases, liver complaint, sick headache, rush of blood to the head, and confu- sion of mind ; dyspepsia, sour stomach, costiveness. diarrhoea, piles, gravel, and all kidney complaints; all female diseases, whites, falling of the womb, &c, weak back, rheumatism, scrofula, skin diseases, dis- eases of the eyes and eyelids; all humors, dropsy, croup, pin worms, food and management of young children, nervousness, monthly irreg- ularity, rules for bathing, &c, ccc. INHALING TUBE. The use ofthis remedy is invaluable in the following state of the chest and lungs: Ifit. For all contractions of the chest—flat chest, stooping chest,