Some gems of wisdom from 1871, Medical Common Sense & Plain Home Talk by Edward B. Foote, M.D.
- The human machinery becomes clogged with poisonous humors.
- As a female germ can not produce a child without the addition of a male germ, so there latent impure particles in the blood can not generate disease without meeting their affinitive poison.
- Theses latent impurities, like the spoor of a minute plant buried far underground, must be of the right quality to unite with and engender specific diseases, or a person, however exposed, will escape.
- Free circulation of vital or nervous electricity, and unruffled mind, and good blood are essential to health.
- Leading us to the irresistible conclusion that the first duty of a physician to a patient is to see that his nervous system is set right, his mind emancipated from all depressing influences, and his blood restored to that condition which enables it to impart the tint of health to the skin, strength to the muscle, and abundant juices to all the tissues.
Want more behind the scenes sneak peeks? Join the Chirrup
GAIL’S DAILY DOSE
Your Moment of Parasol . . .
1895-1900 Mourning Parasol The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Your Infusion of Cute . . .
White chocolate + yellow m&m + pretzel sticks = bacon & egg candy.
Your Writerly Tinctures . . .
How Can We Avoid Cookie-Cutter Writing?
Quote of the Day:
“If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.”
~ Isaac Asimov