A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds; with successful directions how to prevent and cure consumptions / By T. Hayes.

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786
Date:
1786
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds; with successful directions how to prevent and cure consumptions / By T. Hayes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beft affiftance in your power ^ if you are not able to fend for a phyfician, let it be apothecary of a humane and tender difpofition; and one, who ftudies rather ' to remove the complaint, than to load you with a ntimber of phials. Such was my worthy friend and patron, Mr* George Collins, furgeon, who was loved * and revered by all who knew him. For knowledge in his profeffion, few fur- palTed him; in goodnefs of heart, fewer equalled him- and in his death, the' rich and poor had an ineftimable lofs. He was Jt < -5 v . . t . .. ’I the learned man’s companion, and the poor man’s friend; all Hampftead, with one accordant voice declare, they Ne’er ihall fee his like again,’* I cannot forbear embracing this op=? •portiinity, to pay-fo juft and grateful a tri-f hate to his memory, A man of the above principles, will not unneceffarily load jou with naufeous drugs, nor will he add to the calamfties of th^. /