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.

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    Diarrhoea is a common concomitant of consump- tion, and is often very troublesome and intractable ; the oil sometimes produces this complaint, but in a form somewhat differing from that which spon- taneously arises. In either case astringents do mis- chief, and it is best relieved bv a small dose of com- pound rhubarb pill. On the whole, we conclude that the causes of fatality in that formidable and most prevalent dis- ease—consumption, are now better understood than hitherto; and what is more to the purpose, we possess the means not only of counteracting the tuberculous tendency, but of Controlling it in a great degree, even when fully established. The essential similarity between consumption and scrofula, so far Rs tuberculous deposit distinguishes them, is proved; scrofulous aifections of a superficial kind are, however, so rare in consumptive persons, that of three hundred and thirty-two such persons, ex- amined by Mr. Phillips, at the St, Marylebone Infir- mary, only seven presented scars resulting from scro- fula. They are both apt to become hereditary in con- nexion with a bad constitution of the blood; but they are not infectious, and the means best suited to pre- vent the development, and to promote the cure of the one, are equally adapted to the other also. A genial climate, pure air, nutritious food, agreeable employ- ment of body and mind, and all such measures as contribute to the formation of pure blood, and faci- litate its changes, tend to prevent tuberculosis; and the best remedy of that malady yet recommended by science and experience is cod's-liver oil, not, however.