Advice to the people in general, with regard to their healthTissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Hygiene -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800
[8] This supposes they are not greatly heated, as well as fatigued, by
their Labour or Exercise, in which Circumstance free and sudden
Draughts of cooling Liquors might be very pernicious: and it
evidently also supposes these Drinks to be thus given, rather in
Summer, than in very cold Weather, as the Juice of the unripe
Grapes, and the other fresh Fruits sufficiently ascertain the
Season of the Year. We think the Addition of Vinegar to their Water
will scarcely ever be necessary in this or the adjoining Island, on
such Occasions. The Caution recommended in this Note is abundantly
enforced by Dr. _Tissot_, Sec. 4: but considering the Persons, to whom
this Work is more particularly addressed, we were willing to
prevent every Possibility of a Mistake, in so necessary, and
sometimes so vital a Point. _K._
Sec. 2. There is another Kind of Exhaustion or Emptiness, which may be
termed real Emptiness, and is the Consequence of great Poverty, the Want
of sufficient Nourishment, bad Food, unwholesome Drink, and excessive
Labour. In Cases thus circumstanced, good Soups and a little Wine are
very proper. Such happen however very seldom in this Country: I believe
they are frequent in some others, especially in many Provinces of
_France_.
Sec. 3. A second and very common Source of Disorders arises, from Peoples'
lying down and reposing, when very hot, in a cold Place. This at once
stops Perspiration, the Matter of which being thrown upon some internal
Part, proves the Cause of many violent Diseases, particularly of
Quinseys, Inflammations of the Breast, Pleurisies, and inflammatory
Cholics. These Evils, from this Cause, may always be avoided by avoiding
the Cause, which is one of those that destroy a great Number of People.
However, when it has occurred, as soon as the first Symptoms of the
Malady are perceiveable, which sometimes does not happen till several
Days after, the Patient should immediately be bled; his Legs should be
put into Water moderately hot, and he should drink plentifully of the
tepid Infusion marked No. 1. Such Assistances frequently prevent the
Increase of these Disorders; which, on the contrary, are greatly
aggravated, if hot Medicines are given to sweat the Patient.
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