A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions : to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma / by Thomas Hayes, member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, &c.

  • Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions : to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma / by Thomas Hayes, member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    conceive ? Certainly the application of fuch powerful medicines, require the moft judicious medical ability and experience. Now to fuch as have a propenfity to prefcribe for the fick, without being very well acquainted with the nature of the diieafe, and the full pow- ers of the medicines they apply, (except upon emergency, and where other advice is not readily to be had) I do moft earneftly recommend that they read the fixtb cs?nmandment, and reflect, that by adminiftcring powerful drugs much hazard is run, and many melancholy difafters happen. The intention may be good, but will that ex- cufe otr palliate the baneful effects which too often arife from officious perfons tampering with fo important a concern as a neighbour's life ? The number of errors which are almofl daily committed this way, none but medical men can know or conceive. The intention of the prefent fheets, is to convince the public of the danger of depending too much upon that fatal expectation, of colds going off fpontaneoujly ; of trifling with little complaints, and of trufting to fuch means as are not likely to remove them. If a cold comes on with any violence, apply the means here recommended for three or four days ; if the patient does not grow materially worfe, or the complaint abate in that time, fend for the bed afliftance in your power. If you are not able to fend for a phyfician, let it be an apothecary of a humane and tender difpofition ; and one, who (Indies rather to remove the com- plaint, than to load you with a number of vials. A man