On the successful treatment of consumptive disorders, and female complaints connected therewith; on scrofulous diseases ; and on the management of delicate health by diet and regimen / [John James Furnivall].

  • Furnivall, John James, 1790-1878.
Date:
1838
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Credit: On the successful treatment of consumptive disorders, and female complaints connected therewith; on scrofulous diseases ; and on the management of delicate health by diet and regimen / [John James Furnivall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    designate tlie state of body described in the following pages—and to which state he has endeavoured to assign a pathological exist- ence—but none other equally applicable pre- sented itself; for he submits that a person may be in delicate health, and in a state readily to be influenced by the causes of disease, without being a decided invalid. He has insisted upon a timely resort to practical measures; and he wishes he could flatter himself with a hope that his repre- sentations may in some quarters prove effec- tual. Urgent recommendations on this head from a medical man might seem to originate from interested motives; yet his interest would consist in the very opposite course— for doctors, if early applied to, would have less to do than if they were never consulted until disease had had time to take root; and besides, the objection, at best but a sordid one, is amply overruled by the greater probability of preventing loss of life. In consumptive disorders, nothing is more com- mon than a total neglect of the hacking dry cough which so commonly attends them;