Medical cases and remarks / by Thomas Gibbons.

  • Gibbons, Thomas, active 1775-1799.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Medical cases and remarks / by Thomas Gibbons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    io6 waiftcoats be not v/orn too lono-. What I have to reprobate is, the almoft general ufe of them in pulmo- nary confumptions. The firft direc- tion to the patient is, put on a flan- nel waiilcoat under your fhirt. And the waiftcoat is commonly worn for a month or more, without being wafhed! Can any thing be fo inju- rious ? Sweat (like urine and thin feces) is an excrementitious fluid. Now what perfon affli6led with a diarrhoea could bear the idea of wear- ing a fhirt for a month together. In the phthifis pulmonalis, where the patient has been all but diifolved by fweats, he has been permitted to wear a