Medical Common Sense: Applied to the Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases and Unhappiness in Marriage

Edward Bliss Foote

author, 1863 - Marriage - 390 pages

Contents

• PART I: 1
• CHAPTER II: 8
• Gastric fluids require food to act upon: 14
• Coffee bad for lymphatic and bilious peo: 16
• A cause of blood diseases: 21
• The laws of Switzerland: 25
• The poisons of forests and fields: 46
• Men deceive their wives: 58
• The law of temperament: 65
• Failure after failure follows in the wake: 75
• MELANCHOLY: 82
• Paracelsus the Adam of the medical: 88
• the Allopathic profession: 95
• Lungs liver heart and kidneys perform: 98
• How the system is supplied with electri: 109
• Electricity a substitute for anodynes: 110
• Another experiment by trussmakers 205: 117
• CHAPTER IV: 119
• The proper way to treat consumption: 125
• PAGE: 129
• 218: 138
• Injurious effects of bundling the throat 180 A curable disease: 140
• The office of the bile: 146
• Effects of sleeping in badly ventilated: 152
• 336: 158
• Greater proneness to disease during sleep: 161
• Digestive machinery: 163
• Air affected by diseased animal exhala: 171
• Its history and cure: 172
• Its causes: 176
• 26: 201
• Its partial success: 205
• SALT RHEUM: 211
• Electricity often misapplied: 217
• CHRONIC DISEASES: 226
• Clear conscience better than a petted: 235
• 28: 242
• PART II: 243
• Customs in Thibet: 249
• In Portugal and Switzerland: 259
• Daughters sold in marriage: 268
• Must look to medical books for such: 275
• Electricity in three forms the source: 281
• What a popular writer says: 287
• CHAPTER IV: 297
• Need not: 307
• Elopements frequent: 313
• CHAPTER VI: 321
• CHAPTER VII: 328
• Common modes produce disease: 335
• Cohabitation injurious when indiffer: 342
• 90: 351
• 854: 355
• CHAPTER IX: 361
• Diffidence of Gentlemen: 370
• Testimony of Daniel Parish: 377
• CHAPTER II: 385
• UNIV: 387

Bibliographic information

• Title: Medical Common Sense: Applied to the Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases and Unhappiness in Marriage
• Author: Edward Bliss Foote
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: author, 1863
• Original from: Ghent University
• Digitized: Jan 7, 2010
• Length: 390 pages