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.

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    lungs is excited, or increafed by the perpetual adlion which is given to the cheit by coughing; and great injury is done to the fine membrane, which lines or covers the paliage to the lungs, and the whole cavity of the chef!, as well as to the lungs themfelves, from the fame caufc. The leaft inflammation happening to the pleura, or lungs, it is very much to be feared, may pave the road to confumption and death ; and I am of opinion that three parts of the confumptions which happen, arife irom thofe commonly neg- lected trifling colds, (as they are but too com- monly called,) caufing inflammation, he. It is not unufual for a patient to tell you, that he aih nothing, except having a cough ; when in fact, his pulfe i^ full, quick and hard ; his tongue coated with a thick white fur ; and he makes thick muddy water, or fuch as is,very high coloured ; he has cold chills running down his back, forcnefs in the cheft, and on the muf- cles of the belly, befides other fymptoms of fe- ver. But he will infill he has not the leaft fever, and that the cough is the caufe of all thefe fymp- toms, if he happens to be informed of them ; but it fometimes happens, that all thefe are difre- garded, till he is obliged to take to his bed \ for he pcrfuades himfelf he cannot be feverifh, be- caufe he feels himfelf cold ; and to remove which coldnefs, he continues to drink warm cordials, or hot fpicy drinks ; and becaufe he has no ap- petite, he eats rich relilhing things, as he thinks, to give him one, and to keep him from being ftarved: all of which have a full tendency to en- courage, or create inflammation, and would be B the