A treatise on rupture : its causes, progress and danger, with and examination of the claims of the different methods before the public for its treatment : trusses, their inefficiency and the danger resulting from their persistent use, together with the best means of relief and cure : also a consideration of that most frequent and distressing form of displacement, known as "prolapsus uteri" : with an examination of the methods of support for its relief and cure : accompanied by a philosophic exposition of the means of preserving health and prolonging life, in men, women, and children, known as laws of hygiene / by W. Pryor.

  • Pryor, W.
Date:
1876
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Credit: A treatise on rupture : its causes, progress and danger, with and examination of the claims of the different methods before the public for its treatment : trusses, their inefficiency and the danger resulting from their persistent use, together with the best means of relief and cure : also a consideration of that most frequent and distressing form of displacement, known as "prolapsus uteri" : with an examination of the methods of support for its relief and cure : accompanied by a philosophic exposition of the means of preserving health and prolonging life, in men, women, and children, known as laws of hygiene / by W. Pryor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    sapping tlie foundations of health. Hence, also, it follows directly that whatever causes are calculated to increase sen- sibility, to make us tender, have an immediate and powerful effect in impeding the conversion of our food into blood, and therefore of impeding the process of nutrition. Hence the mischief of a daily indulgence in what are miscalled the com- forts of life, but which are, in reality, most pernicious and unnatural luxuries. A few of these are table indulgences, lounging on couches, warm carpeted rooms, window curtains, bed curtains, blazing fires, soft beds, flannel under-clothes, (I speak of the healthy, not of the sickly invalid), novel read- ing, hot suppers, and the last, by no means the least, that precious piece of foolery called passive exercise ; that is lolling, at ease, in a stuffed and cushioned carriage. Not that I would totally abolish any one of these, except, perhaps, hot suppers and soft beds, but that I wish, by proving to you their evil influences, to induce you to use them as sparingly as the con- ventional habits of society will j)ermit. Though I confess, for my own part, I see no reason why any one should feel him- self called upon to injure his health, to blur the beauty of God's noblest work, solely to gratify the capricious whim of that many-headed master, that blatant beast, called Society. Finally, says a learned physician, you will observe that everything connected with life, all the actions, the energies and beauties of the body, all the actions, the energies and beau- ties of the mind as well as the mind and body themselves are under the dominion of the circulation of the blood, from which both mind and body must inevitably derive each its tone and character. So that the body and the mind are like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining—rumple the one and you rumjDle the other.