A serious and friendly address to the public, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds so frequent in this climate : containing, a simple, efficacious, and domestic method of cure, necessary for all families / by a gentleman of the faculty.

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

Credit: A serious and friendly address to the public, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds so frequent in this climate : containing, a simple, efficacious, and domestic method of cure, necessary for all families / by a gentleman of the faculty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    nurtierous members to the flate ^ not-, withftanding, the many prejudices which long prevailed againft it. Fa(fts fooner, or later, will fupport themfelves, though we have fliewn above, that they are fometimes flowj we therefore hope, that the objedt of the prefent trifle will be attended to in the courfe of time, and the more efpecially, when it fhall appear, to have been undertaken, the very oppo- fite to interefted motives ! For were the enclofed hints ftri(ftly purfued, the author would have very little bufinefs, and half his brethren of the faculty, muft then be obliged to feek fome other means, of earn-» ing a livelihood. Two very feniible writers, TilTot and Buchan, have addreffed themfelves to the public in general on the fubjed: of medi- cine, and many excellent diredlions they - have given refped:ing the management of colds, and other diieafes ; but on this fubjed, they have not entered fo fully as. we think the diforders required; and in a 2 others