A guide to health, or, advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula; also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature, to which is added, an address to parents, tutors & guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to health, or, advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula; also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature, to which is added, an address to parents, tutors & guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *.* * Xllt the unrivalled skill of that celebrated DivrNE,f who has reftored the mojl amiable of men\ from a malady the moll affetling in the catalogue of human in- firmitles.§ There iso very important o\>{QTvzt\on to be made refpedling a public medicine, that unlefs its operation be gentle^ and efficacious^ it mull, and will fpeedily sink into oblivion •, for as it has rarely the great advantage of a persuasive advocate at the ear of the patient, fo nothing but his convic- tion of its virtues, by its salutary effeBs, can in- duce him to persevere ; and yet reafonable perfe- verance is certainly mof requisite to enable even the HAPPIEST combination of chemicals and gale- nicals to root out CHRONIC DISEASES, and reftore the valetudinarian to health. “ Silence were, perhaps, the befl remedy to that fhaft, which is hourly let fly from the bows of the interefted and malevolent, againft public medicines, viz. that “ they are advertised remedies! but as this nveak reed appears to be the favorite of their quiver, a few words may be thought requifite.—It requires the frongef con- viction of their intrinsic worth and phyftcal ex- cellence, by long 2inA great experience, to induce an inventor or proprietor of any medicine to incur the f Dr. Willis. \ His Majcfiy. § Hypochondriac, or mental affection.