A Botanic Quide to Health and the Natural Pathology of Disease (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845. Excerpt: ... many other cases to mention, some of which occurred in this country, indeed several in this neighbourhood; and as the parties are now living here, and the cases somewhat fresh on the minds of the public, I shall select them in preference to others of older date. However, to begin with myself. My early life was devoted to the study of medicine, as taught and practised in the schools; anxious to perfect myself in the science, I studied with the most unremitting diligence: from leading such a sedentary life, I became a victim to dyspepsia, or indigestion, to relieve which I made use of the best means known at that time to the schools, all of which failed to produce a profitable change in my system; with the approaching autumn I caught a severe cold, which very much stood in the way of a cure: these misfortunes befel me in the year 1814, at which time I was sixteen years of age. When the warm weather came in the succeeding spring, my cough left me, and during the summer months, my health visibly improved, and my friends indulged the hope that I was recovering; but with the cold weather, my cough returned with more than its former violence, and continued to annoy me throughout the winter. I then began to expectorate a blueish grey gluey matter, which was regarded by my master as an unfavourable symptom; the expectoration continued, its violence increasing, whenever I had the misfortune to renew my cold. In this miserable state I lingered on for two or three years, the enemy gaining strength, and entrenching himself more firmly in my vitals, until he appeared to have gained full possession of the citadel of life. The most eminent of the faculty attended me, but all their efforts were abortive in the end. I continued to grow Weaker; I was so much reduced, that I...