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Practical observations in physick, wherein is exhibited the aetiology ... of the most prevalent distempers with a ... method of treating them ... With a new hypothesis concerning the cure of apoplexies, palsies, and many nervous complaints. As also of the gout. To which are added, rules and directions how to preserve good health and long life / [Simon Mason].

  • Mason, Simon, 1701-
Date:
1757
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Credit: Practical observations in physick, wherein is exhibited the aetiology ... of the most prevalent distempers with a ... method of treating them ... With a new hypothesis concerning the cure of apoplexies, palsies, and many nervous complaints. As also of the gout. To which are added, rules and directions how to preserve good health and long life / [Simon Mason]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many Perfons into Fevers and other Illneffes, and makes well for Gentlemen of the Faculty of Phyfick. CHAP. VII. On the Ufe of Snuff. SNUFF, which is Powder of Tobacco, or at leall ought to be lb, is of very little Ule, yet is become very falhionable: Snuff, whether Scotch or Rappee being grofs, is lefs liable to do Mifchief; a little taken occafionally, after catching Cold, and the Rheum begins to difeharge from the Glands, may be ufeful, but thofe who fnuff up fuch large Quantities, as to deprive them of one of their Senles, muff I think be defective in more, for they don’t only lofe the Ufe of Smelling, by clogging their olfac¬ tory Nerves, but they frequently fwallow it, as many Perfons have been known, to vomit large Cakes of Snuff, which muft be prejudicial to the Stomach; befides plugging up their Noftrils and giving them the Snuffles, as if they were Martyrs to Dame f enus. Of two Evils I would advife the leaf!; and as for fuch, who have lb habituated themfelves to take Snuff, as ’tis a Matter of Difficulty to forbear it, let them take Scotch or Rappee, as they, by being not fo line as Spanifb and forne others