A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds ... containing, a simple, efficacious, and domestic method of cure ... / By a Gentleman of the Faculty [i.e. T. Hayes].

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786
Date:
1785
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Credit: A serious address on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds ... containing, a simple, efficacious, and domestic method of cure ... / By a Gentleman of the Faculty [i.e. T. Hayes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the numbers, who fufFer long and paln-^ ful illneffcs, from rheumatifms, pleuriffes quinfies, &c. arifing from the fame neg- left, and afterwards recover. Phyficians, from the earlieft date, have cautioned the public againft letting colds gain ground upon them ^ but as few read their writings, except thofe who make phyfic their profellion, and as the world often fufpeds, that what comes from them mufl be interefting to thcmfelves only, I do not wonder ^that this caution is not al¬ ways regarded'. It has always been diffi¬ cult to perfuade men of their true inte- refts, or we fhould not have io\xn& Inocula¬ tion fo (low, in advancing to the confidence and ufe we now fee it with the people; but through the means of the learned and judicious Baron Dymfdale, it is be¬ come familiar and fafe, and a great friend to health and beauty. The Humane So¬ ciety, through the indefatigable zeal of Dr. Hawes, becomes alfo daily more and more confpicuoufly ufeful, in reftoring, numerous