A treatise on rupture : its causes, progress and danger, with and examination of the claims of the different methods before the public for its treatment : trusses, their inefficiency and the danger resulting from their persistent use, together with the best means of relief and cure : also a consideration of that most frequent and distressing form of displacement, known as "prolapsus uteri" : with an examination of the methods of support for its relief and cure : accompanied by a philosophic exposition of the means of preserving health and prolonging life, in men, women, and children, known as laws of hygiene / by W. Pryor.

  • Pryor, W.
Date:
1876
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Credit: A treatise on rupture : its causes, progress and danger, with and examination of the claims of the different methods before the public for its treatment : trusses, their inefficiency and the danger resulting from their persistent use, together with the best means of relief and cure : also a consideration of that most frequent and distressing form of displacement, known as "prolapsus uteri" : with an examination of the methods of support for its relief and cure : accompanied by a philosophic exposition of the means of preserving health and prolonging life, in men, women, and children, known as laws of hygiene / by W. Pryor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    contains that this grand work of health, strength and vitality is mainly accomplished. The homes do not furnish it; and woman, who is doomed to remain so long in these homes, suffers through her entire organism. Every householder should be sure that every member of his family breathes pure air, not only all day but all night, by this simple arrangement: In every room of his house let at least one window be let down at the top two inches, and one door have an opening of two inches over the top. Let this be done in such a way that no one can alter it. A house thus arranged will require more fuel to warm it, but the additional expense of this will not be a tenth part of that which would result from the loss of labor and health consequent on the debility ^nd disease always resulting, more or less, from the habitual inhalation of impure air. As to unhealthful miasmata in the night aii\ nothing can oe worse than the exhalations of decaying bodies as sent forth from the lungs and skin of sleepers. It is precisely the same evil as is found in proximity to grave-yards and decaying carrion. Those who have entered the pent-up sleeping-rooms of persons who do not wash their skins or breathe a pure air, very well understand the close resemblance. The school-houses, halls in public buildings, churches and railroad cars, in short, every apartment in which a human lung is doomed to breathe, must have this hogshead of pure air provided every hour of its breathing life, or debility, sickness, disease, impaired constitutions and premature death will inevitably follow. To the members oi the medical profession, who are consid- ered the guardians of the public health, we especially commend a more attentive consideration of the relations of oxygen gas to health and disease, and that they will insist upon a more