Thermal comfort; or, popular hints for preservation from colds, coughs, and consumption / [Sir George Lefevre].

  • Lefevre, George William, 1798-1846
Date:
1844
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Thermal comfort; or, popular hints for preservation from colds, coughs, and consumption / [Sir George Lefevre]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    They either allow the disease by such means to be arrested at once, or a small portion of the lungs only being lost, enough remains for the purposes of life. To what is this change to be attributed ? To the removal of those exciting causes which, under other circumstances, would have kept up the irritation, viz., cold air, and cold current^. The public have of late acquired some new and very consolatory ideas as to the nature of con- sumption. When attacked by this disease, they no longer despair, as formerly. They have hopes of permanent cure. If this fail, they know that their lives may be prolonged to an indefinite period, for they are now aware that the flame may be kept up by half a lung, or by two lobes out of three, or three out of five, and then they may catch a very severe cold, which will cure them radically. I do not deny the truth of all these positions. I would do everything to en- courage the gasping patient in his belief of a cure, but I would admonish him, as I would the hitherto unattacked, but predisposed indi- vidual, to beware of cold, and to cherish warmth. An inflammation supervening in form of catarrh, may, by its adhesive processes, form a barrier between the sound and the diseased part of the