Diseases of winter : on consumption, coughs, colds, asthma, and other diseases of the chest : their remedial and avertive treatment : addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, with copious observations on the diet and regimen necessary for invalids : also an appendix containing two hundred formulae of the latest and most approved remedies, many valuable domestic recipes, and full directions for the practice of inhalation / by R.J. Culverwell.

  • Culverwell, Robert James, 1802-1852.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Diseases of winter : on consumption, coughs, colds, asthma, and other diseases of the chest : their remedial and avertive treatment : addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, with copious observations on the diet and regimen necessary for invalids : also an appendix containing two hundred formulae of the latest and most approved remedies, many valuable domestic recipes, and full directions for the practice of inhalation / by R.J. Culverwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISEASES OF WINTER. out bearing upon individual peculiarities, so much depends upon age, tem- perament, habits, occupation, and locality ; and, varying as these do, any specific instructions could not have been indiscriminately available, or, if acted upon, attended by invariable success. My object has accordingly been more to induce reflection upon certain subjects which most importantly con- trol the condition of health and the duration of life than to dilate upon the nature of those minute particulars which they comprehend, and which, from the ever-various modes of life among society, and from the impossibility of general application, must have proved of little advantage to the general reader. To persons actually laboring under, or who may be predisposed to, affec- tions of the chest, the formulae contained in the following Appendix will be found to contain a valuable body of information for domestic reference ; to the prescriptions generally are appended notes descriptive of the intention they are severally designed to fulfil, and, as they have been selected from those the beneficial effects of which I have myself personally witnessed several of them the production of the most eminent modern authorities—I can recommend them in the fullest confidence that salutary relief will result from their judicious administration. APPENDIX. To remove any ambiguity or misinterpretation which might be occasioned by the technical terms commonly employed to designate the nature and influences of medi- cine, the following explanation may be useful :— Aperients, Laxatives, Purgatives, Cathartics, are names severally applied to those remedies which are administered for the purpose of promoting the excretions miMest'to thT1^11 USfd rttiV!!y t0/ach °iher <as t0 comparative^t from he mildest to the strongest) in the order of precedence. tv nf ™AT.IVEs are those medicinal agents which are supposed to possess the proper- L^n J^disordered actions, chiefly of a chronic character, by inducing fsecre- tion in diseased structures opposed to that which has been perniciously set up Antacids—substances which neutralize acidity in the stomach Antiphlogistic—opposed to inflammation. Diaphoretics stimulate the functions of perspiration Diuretics promote the action of the kidneys. Refrigerants allay the heat of the body or of the blood 1 onics are medicines which increase the tone of the muscular fihrp« of fk„ ♦ u such as vegetable bitters, astringent, stimulating substances £ °f ** St°maCh' towixht^ The dose, or quantity of the medicine administered imnnrtsmtlir a a age, sex, temperament, and constitutional habits and S TrelulaL?^ 5 T The prescriptions which follow, except in those cases concerninfwh^h^?^' rections are given, have been drafted upon the assumed Silt P f mid-age and ordinary general constitution; the reSfvedoewH?l male Patient/ gree of quantity and strength according to the sub jointedtalZ .,S **** mJ* deductions should be consequently made. 5U°J°inted table, and corresponding From 10 to 15 years of age, one half the quantity ■ from l <w« on ♦ »-• j r 20 to 50, common dose. Above 50 the graaation fnVe«ely ^We W° ^'' *°m For female patients a deduction of one fifth in diminut on of n»2't-> be allowed, unless peculiarity of habit contra-indicaTesuch anSS. 7 * USUaUy