Consumption Curable: Observations on the Treatment of Pulmonary Diseases
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Henry John Congreve, was an adventurer, journalist and preacher. Despite his faith, Congreve was an avid appreciator of medicine and science. In this book, he examines how pulmonary disease was treated and the changes these treatments underwent as doctors came up with alternative methods that were better suited to the disease.
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Consumption Curable - Henry Congreve
Henry Congreve
Consumption Curable: Observations on the Treatment of Pulmonary Diseases
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
OBSERVATIONS ON PULMONARY DISEASES;
Of Hoarseness , arising from Cold .
OF CATARRH, COLD, INFLUENZA, AND COUGH; AND HOOPING COUGH, TO WHICH CHILDREN ARE ESPECIALLY LIABLE.
Hooping Cough .
Of the tough Phlegm , which usually precedes an attack of asthma .
OF ASTHMA, OR DIFFICULTY OF BREATHING.
OF PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.
Consumptive Cough, Shortness of Breath , &c.
OBSERVATIONS
ON
PULMONARY DISEASES;
Table of Contents
DEFINING THE CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS, AND DIRECTING TO THE MODE OF TREATMENT, AND MEANS OF CURE OF
INFLUENZA COLDS AND COUGHS, HOOPING COUGH, ASTHMA, AND PULMONARY CONSUMPTION, &c.
It
is a matter of notoriety how slightly regarded or little known are the medicinal properties concentrated in the plants which adorn the vegetable kingdom. Such negligence of the means of healing, by the remedies which are sent by the immediate hand of Providence, and rendered most abundant and common, and the substitution of others of a more doubtful, and often highly injurious, character, evinces a love of change, not simply to promote a greater benefit, but to render the art of healing more complicated and obscure.
It is probable that many disorders, for the relief of which medicines are sought for from the remotest parts of the globe, which act with harshness and violence, would be averted, were the same attention paid to the investigation of the properties, and the best mode of extracting the qualities, incorporated in the leaves, seeds, roots, and juices, together with the balsams, which in some cases exude from them, to be found in the soil of Nature’s platform on which we traverse.
There was a time, and not very remote, in the annals of the past, when disorders of the Chest and Lungs, so alarmingly prevalent in the present day, were scarcely known; when Consumptions were seldom heard of; when obstructions of the viscera were hardly ever seen, and when chronic diseases were but rarely witnessed. The reason is obvious: the simples which adorn the pages of our ancient authors on medical science, are no longer resorted to for relief by the student or practitioner, however valuable their properties have heretofore been manifested; and other compounds, emanating from the laboratory, have been preferred, and thus the simplicity of the science has been gradually lost in its complications.
The design of the present treatise is to attempt the restoration of the good old ancient mode of cure, now obsolete; particularly as regards pulmonary complaints, which, in this our variable climate, are unhappily so abundant and fatal. All the information, needful to exhibit to the sufferer the dangers frequently arising from the neglect of what is called a common cold; and of the means whereby its course may be nipped in the very bud, and its more direful effects removed in its latent stages, and other matter of general importance is advanced; which, while it becomes a friendly beacon to warn him of danger, will at once point to a safe and salutary, and not less certain than salutary remedy.
All diseases of a pulmonary character should be treated by remedies possessing a combination of emollient, pectoral, and mildly expectorant qualities, capable of inciding and discharging the offending matter, which impedes the free action of the lungs, and highly aggravates the complaint. A remedy has for many years been employed in these