Taking cold, the cause of half our diseases, its nature, causes, prevention and cure

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Pagina 21 - ... children, that we find it absolutely necessary to clothe the most warmly in adolescence and adult life; and more especially when we reflect that in childhood the body is small, and the stock of animal heat insufficient, and the bodily growth in progress, and that growth is retarded and checked by cold and favoured by warmth ; and still more especially inasmuch as there is absence of reason and experience to teach how to keep up the warmth of the parts exposed ; whilst in adolescence and adult...
Pagina 46 - The first stage of an inflammatory fever is not a full and bounding pulse, a hot and dry skin, flushed face, and so forth ; an opposite group of symptoms occurs. The patient experiences a chill or cold creepings along the back ; he looks pale, hollow-eyed, the hands and feet are cold, the pulse is thin, feeble, rather slower than naturally, or, at any rate, not much accelerated.
Pagina 48 - .Aconite's sphere of action is manifested principally in the ganglionic system, and exercises here its special influence upon the nerves of the capillary vessels, exciting fevers, congestions, and inflammations. It is subordinate in its action to the apparatus of the motor nerves, where — apparently in consequence of congestion — it sometimes excites convulsions and a paralytic condition. In the sphere of the sensory nerves, it increases, on the one hand, their activity, and calls forth a...
Pagina 56 - the diseases for which it is suitable would be to mention the acute inflammation of every possible order and tissue of the body; and if it be not for all of these the sole remedy, it is almost always useful either previous to, or in alternation with, another remedy which has perhaps a more specific relation to the part affected.
Pagina 20 - The frequency with which disease results in children from the insane practice of leaving their digestive, genital, and respiratory organs, and their extremities, exposed to the chilling blasts and varying temperatures of our atmosphere, is unfortunately too well known to need that I should enter into any proof ; nor need I more than protest against the cruelty, to say...

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