A serious and friendly address to the public, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds so frequent in this climate : containing, a simple, efficacious, and domestic method of cure, necessary for all families / by a gentleman of the faculty.

  • Hayes, Thomas.
Date:
1783
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A serious and friendly address to the public, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds so frequent in this climate : containing, a simple, efficacious, and domestic method of cure, necessary for all families / by a gentleman of the faculty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    If a cold comes on with any violence, apply the means here recommended for three or four days ; if the patient does not get materially worfe before, or the com- plaint abate in that time, fend for the befl affiftance in your power j if you are not able to fend for a phyfician, let it be an apothecary of a humane, and tender difpoiition ; and one, who ftudies more to remove the complaint, than how he fliall load you with a number of phials. A man of the above principles, will not unnecelTarily load you with naufeous drugs, nor will he add to the calamities of the poor tradefman, by extravagant charges, which is too often the rapacious practice of the profeffion. To this will be faid, ought not every man to live by his bufinefs; we fairly ad- mit it, and moft certainly exped to do fo ourfelves. To the fliarks of the profefiion we allude, and not to the honeft, candid, human©