A guide to the treatment of diseases of the skin : with suggestions for their prevention for the use of the student and general practitioner / by Thomas Hunt.

  • Hunt, Thomas, 1798-1879.
Date:
1862
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Credit: A guide to the treatment of diseases of the skin : with suggestions for their prevention for the use of the student and general practitioner / by Thomas Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    moral amusement are closed. The profligate, vicious and profane, are for the most part asleep, and for a time innocuous and inoffensive; the morning air often exhilarates, always refreshes and cheers the spirits. A gleam of hope, and a sense of peace and tranquilly, if not of contentment and happiness, may beam on the mind, long depressed and fretful, almost as natur- ally on these occasions, as the rays of the rising sun enliven and adorn the scenes of nature. His must indeed be a misanthropic mind, who can, in these bright hours, brood over his troubles, or cherish thoughts of malice or ill-will. And let me remind the hale and active youngster, who naturally thinks that a lonely morning walk must be a dull and stupid affair, that a moderate use of gymnastic ex- ercises at the foot of Primrose Hill, or elsewhere, at five o'clock on a summer's morning, would invigorate his frame and improve his figure without bringing him under the suspicion of being thoughtful or in- tellectual. And to all who are disposed to doubt the happy influence of the early stroll, and to regard this description as exaggerated or false, let me only say— Try it, and try it for a month. Diet. Is there any particular diet which will prevent diseases of the skin ? This is a question which our patients often put to us, and a very reason- able one too.- But it is a question which scarcely admits of a specific answer : that is to say, the answer must depend upon the nature of the case. When patients adopt a code of diet suggested by their own medical views, they generally err. Women who have eruptions in the face, are ajot to adopt too low a diet