Medical Histories and Reflections ...

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W. Eyres, 1792
"A selection of cases and observations, chiefly drawn from ... [the author's] practice at the Manchester Infirmary." - Preface.
 

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197 ページ - Hunc ego Diti Sacrum jussa fero, teque isto corpore solvo. Sic ait, et dextra crinem secat. Omnis et una Dilapsus calor, atque in ventos vita recessit.
47 ページ - The latter has only one small window, which, though on a level with the outer ground, is near the roof of the cellar. It is often patched with boards or paper, and in its best state is so much covered with mud, as to admit very little either of air or light. In this cell the beds of the whole family, sometimes consisting of seven or eight, are placed. The floor of this room is often unpaved, the beds are fixed on the damp earth, but the floor, even when paved, is always damp. In such places, where...
197 ページ - And they who, to be sure of Paradise, Dying put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
215 ページ - ... where you cannot have the common comforts of light and air. It should be unnecessary to remind you, that much sickness is occasioned among you, by passing your evenings at alehouses, or in strolling about the streets, or in the fields adjoining to the town.
107 ページ - An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremities, which sometimes happens to lying-in women.
46 ページ - I am inclined to consider puerperal mania as a case of conversion. During gestation and after delivery, when the milk begins to flow, the balance of the circulation is so greatly disturbed as to be liable to much disorder from the application of any exciting cause. If, therefore, cold affecting the head, violent noises, want of sleep, or uneasy thoughts, distress a puerperal patient before the determination of blood to the breasts is regularly made, the impetus may be converted to the head, and produce...
206 ページ - ... her first lying-in. The cessation of her employment then produces a deficiency in their income, at a time when expenses unavoidably increase. She therefore wants many comforts, and even the indulgences necessary to her situation : she becomes sickly, droops, and at last is laid up by a fever or...
212 ページ - Always wash your children from head to foot with cold water, before you send them to work in the morning. Take care to keep them dry in their feet, and never allow them to go to work without giving them their breakfast, though you should have nothing to offer them but a crust of bread, and a little water.
211 ページ - ... crowd the whole together in the back cellar. Keep your persons and houses as clean as your employments will permit, and do not regret the loss of an hour's wages when your time is occupied in attending to cleanliness. It is better to give up a little time occasionally to keep your houses neat, than to see your whole family lying nick in consequence of working constantly without cleaning.
194 ページ - What if some little pain the passage have, That makes frail flesh to fear the bitter wave? Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

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