Health, disease and remedy : familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood / by George Moore.

  • Moore, George, 1803-1880.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Health, disease and remedy : familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood / by George Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    to him that a tried heart and a dying body would have been best at home. When the breathing is short, the pulse frequent, or above 110°; when there is regular hectic about noon daily; when diarrhoea and night-sweat alternate with each other, and the cough is produced on lying down and rising up; when the wasting is rapid, despite a moderate appetite and good diet; when the purulent expectoration is large and spotted with blood, removal to the sea is either too early or too late, and a medical attendant, who fairly examines all the bearings of the case, can alone determine which. When the disorder is incipient, though the chest may be rather sunken and contracted, the breathings, when quiet and unobserved by the patient, and not above two or three and twenty times in a minute; and when gentle exercise can be taken without instantly hurrying the heart and lungs; and when the cough, expectoration, and hectic, are but slight, there is reason to hope for benefit from a change of air, and a residence near the sea during the winter will be a proper precaution, and likely to lead to permanent improvement. And oh, it is a glorious thing, and healthful to the soul, for one who feels the unseen world close about him, to wander by the sea, when thoughts are given him that travel as if on a path of light across the waters—from the verge of the great deep into the eternal depth—assuring him, as by vision, that men are spirits—heirs of God, and of his universe. Then how grand the joy to remember Him who walked in