A Treatise on Health, Its Aids and Hindrances

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Excerpt from A Treatise on Health, Its Aids and Hindrances: Containing an Exposition of the Causes and Cure of Disease, and the Laws of LifeIT is now nearly eleven years since the author published the first edition of his Six Lectures on the Causes and Cure of Consump tion, etc. And in that time he has had very ample opportunity of practically testing the correctness of the views be there announced. The position taken in that work that pulmonary consumption is cura ble by medical treatment, with the proof presented that the author had succeeded in curing it, attracted very general attention, and brought to his office in New York, for consultation and treatment, invalids from all portions of this country, and even from Europe and other parts of the world. His practice, having had this wide range, and embracing, as it has, in its scope over seventy thousand patients, of all classes and ages, and of both sexes, has enabled him to determine with great accuracy, how much is due to climate, to habits of life, to hereditary peculiarities, and to the various in¿uences acting upon us, both in producing and preventing or arresting this disease. He has also been enabled to. Ascertain, by personal observation, how much and what efiicacy there is in the various remedies and modes of prac tice - whether regular or irregular - which have at one time and another challenged public attention in the treatment of consumption. The result has been not only completely to demonstrate, as he be lieves, the truth of the doctrines heretofore announced by him, but to impress still more forcibly on his mind their great practical im portance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.