Instructions relative to self-preservation during the prevalence of contagious diseases / by a physician.

Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Instructions relative to self-preservation during the prevalence of contagious diseases / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    bedfideof the fickperfon, (he (lwuld take' a walk or a ride in the open air, if the weather be favourable. The frefh air, at the fame time that it diflolves and wafts away the contagious effluvia adhering to the clothes, invigorates the body and enables it to refift infetflion. In all the hiflories of peftilential difeafes, we find that thofe perfons, whofe occupations or habits of life led them to pafs moft of their time out of doors, either efcaped infeftion entirely, or took it only in a mild degree. It is fcarcely neceflary to add, that wafhing the hands, face, neck and arms will be as neceflary in the in- flance of the miftrefs of the family, as in the cafe of the nurfe j * over whom fhe will enjoy the advantage of a daily « k * The ufe of the shower-bath, or immerfion in the cold bath would be preferable in moft inftances. change t