[posted] Posted(#53880, Congreve)
David Price
ccx074 at pglaf.org
Tue Jan 3 14:30:02 PST 2017
Consumption Curable, by Henry Congreve 53880
[Subtitle: Observations on the treatment of Pulmonary Diseases]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/8/8/53880 ]
[Files: 53880-0.txt; 53880-h.htm]
For those wishing to know: This 1839 pamphlet is mainly an advert for the
writer's own quack cure (which naturally he praises to the heights and
gives no specific details of). However, he also protests against
then-current medical opinion that consumption was incurable. It must have
been truly terrifying to contact T.B. in those days when it wasn't
understood and no cure was known. Within 30 years the Brompton
Consumption Hospital would open just a few miles from where this author
lived and practised.
All the best,
David,
Cold England
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