A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions : to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma / by Thomas Hayes, member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, &c.

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions : to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma / by Thomas Hayes, member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tract may not, perhaps, be without its ufe, as a companion to their celebrated works; for beyond a common cold, or a flight fever, perfons are not competent to direct for themfelves. It requires an arrangement, and companion, of the feveral conftitutions, and fymptoms, together with a number of other minutiae, which are not to be acquired but by experience, and a knowledge of the animal economy ; and with which very few but medical men are acquainted. The works juft now alluded to, are more cal- culated to inform young practitioners in medi- cine, and men of letters, than the people in gen- eral, who have not an opportunity to fludy the leading characters which diftinguiih one difeafe from another ; for this is often attended with difficulty ; and midakes are fometimes made, even by men eminent in the profeilion. It is well known, that phyficians never prefcribe for themfelves. The embarraflment of mind, and a number of ambiguous fymptoms, that attend the fick, mud forever render it impracticable for him to be a competent judge of his own dif- eafe ; and the feveral changes and complications to which it is liable, ferve (till to increafe the difficulty. How then, fhall the many ignorant perfons, to whom the abovementioned books are left open, wherein many very potent medi- cines are recommended, be thought equal to the talk of prefcribing, either for themfelves, or for their neighbours ; whom they ceafe not on all occafions, from urging to take Dr. James' Pow- der, or fome other favourite medicine, let the complaint be ever fo different from what they A 2 conceive ?