This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ... latter precautions cannot be taken, the medicinal means already suggested should be adopted. The bowels should be attended to, and their functions regulated; but in no case should this be attempted by debilitating purgatives, or by salts. The warm stomachic laxatives, and these combined with tonics, may be adopted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ... latter precautions cannot be taken, the medicinal means already suggested should be adopted. The bowels should be attended to, and their functions regulated; but in no case should this be attempted by debilitating purgatives, or by salts. The warm stomachic laxatives, and these combined with tonics, may be adopted with advantage, as occasion may require. The surface of the body should be kept in a warm perspirable state; but excessive perspirations must be avoided. The diet should be regular, moderate, and easy of digestion. Whilst low living ought to be shunned, its opposite should never be indulged in. The stomach ought to have no more to do than what it can perfectly accomplish, without fatigue to itself, and to the promotion of its own energies. It must never be roused to a state of false energy, by means of palatable excitants, or weakened by distending it with too copious draughts of weak diluents. The state of the mind ought to be regulated in such a manner, as not to be excited much above, or lowered beneath, its usual tenour. The imagination should not be allowed, for a moment, to dwell upon the painful considerations which the disease is calculated to bring before the mind; and least of all ought the dread of it to be encouraged. There is a moral courage, which is possessed by individuals who are even the weakest, perhaps, as respects physical powers, and which in them resists more efficiently the causes of intertropical diseases, than the bodily powers of the strongest, who are not similarly endowed with this species of meutal energy. Those who dread not the attack of disease, more especially of epidemic diseases, and who yet possess sufficient prudence to avoid unnecessary exposures to their predisposing and exciting causes, may generally be co...
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