Bronchitis and kindred diseases / by W.W. Hall.

  • Hall, W. W. (William Whitty), 1810-1876.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Bronchitis and kindred diseases / by W.W. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The first great object, in these pages, is the diffusion of useful knowledge, in familiar terms, as to the earliest symptoms of a class of diseases, which destroys one person out of every six, in civilized society. Like true cholera, the ailments of the air passages are uniformly and permanently cured, only when they are attended to ia their first stages: and multitudes of lives would be saved every year, if these few lines were generally and properly appreciated; for, of their sweeping truthfulness, no educated physician can possibly have the shadow of a doubt. Second. The necessity of applying, at once, for medical advice, to some practitioner, whose character and experience have secured him the respect and confidence of the community in which he resides. Third. How to guard against these dangerous maladies. The seventh edition, issued last year, having been entirely sold by the Publisher, its errors and misprints, as far as discovered, have been rectified, and some additions made to this eighth edition, which, it is hoped, will be useful The author has never used or recommended the employment of any secret or patent remedy, medicinal, mechanical or otherwise, nor does he see how any honorable man of intelligence can do so. The inquiries made on the subject, makes it necessary for him to say, that all remedies whatsoever, having his name, in whole or in part, and so extensively sold, especially in the west and south- west, are, as far as they refer to him as their author, unmanly and inhuman impositions: unmanly, because any reputation which may attach to his name or practice, is used without his consent for the benefit of another: inhuman, because the sick and the dying are deceived in their hour of weakness, by assurances known to be wholly untrue, by those who make or sell the cough * remedy and Balaam referred to. See pages 189, 302, 341. The Author truly hopes, that by this book, and by private cor- respondence, in reference to special cases, he may be able to place within the reach of many whom he may never see, the means of cure, and thus not be altogether useless to the world he lives in. Ieving Place, New York, Dec. 2, 1853.