A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds : with successful directions how to prevent and cure consumptions / by Thomas Hayes.

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786.
Date:
1786
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds : with successful directions how to prevent and cure consumptions / by Thomas Hayes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    With refpedt to exercife, where the Aflhmj •13 unaccommpanied by fever or inflam^it'ion, the more a patient is able to take fo much the better; particularly if it Ipc on horfeback. t ; Exercife promotes a regular, and equal c'lr- (Culation of blood, t?ikes the foul matter out of the glands; and ftimulates the fmaller veflels, and animal fibres, to do their proper offices of adlion and fecretion. Chronic cornplaints in general require this. Where horfe exercife cannot be borne, the dumb bell, a chamber horfe, or a daily ufe of the flefh brufli is really neceffary. Sedentary perfons ihould attend to this, as many of their cpmplaints arife from inadtion,] It is to be lamented that very ftudlous men, and many of the greateft fcholars, and beft writers, are very negligent in this refpc6t. They would be able to do themfelves, and the world more fervice, did they pay more at- tention to it. They would prolong their lives, have t>etter health, and confequently more en- joyment.