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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    and it is refeiTcd to a passing cold, or to any other source than the real dangerous one, until great risk of life is at length incurred. Many a head-aehe has been lightly called a sick or bilious head-ache, and exercise, &c. ordered, w^hich depended on diseased heart, and required different means of cure. An- other person shall eomplain of pains in feet and legs, whieh shall be referred to slight stomaeh derangement—yet insidious and mortal disease shall be going on in the brain. So again shall similar pains be as- eribed to rheumatism—yet shall they depend on gastric inflammation, which, if unchecked, Avould take aAvay life. Costiveness will often be tampered vnth, by the most drastic medi- cines, which ultimately turns out to depend on a mechanical obstruction, requiring very different measures for' its removal. In fine, many instances might be enumerated, AA'hich are repeatedly oceurring to the medical man, aU tending to show the danger of neglecting the first and earliest symptoms of disease, however slight they may appear to be.