Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].

  • Simmons, Samuel Foart, 1750-1813.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 15 ] I This, however, by proper care, Is often relieved, and the patient remains in this ftate for a confiderable time, and even for many years, if he Is fenfible of his danger, and careful to guard againft it by a fuitable manner of liv¬ ing. More commonly, however, we find the cough increafing, and fome- tlines accompanied with more or lefs of catarrh. This is ufually afcribed to cold, and but too generally neglefted, till the difeafe becomes alarming by Its obftinacy and its effects. This may be confidered as the beginning, or first period of the difeafe. During this ft age, the cough is fometimes dry from the firft, and fometimes, when it fets in in the form of a catarrh, is at¬ tended with more or lefs expectoration of mucus. Phyficians are pretty well agreed as to the methods that are to be adopted, I m