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'" con sults a friend.


Another is


" sore."


She has a specific,


This


don't


succeed.


course; t
Finally,


fails.


perhaps


after considerable damage is done, a physician is consulted as


a dernier resort.


Loss of


appetite is a not unfrequent corm-


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plaint among this class of invalids.


But this is endured


worried about, and friends are again consulted,


and "bitters"


are recommended, and


the winter is


thus wasted to a consid.


erablo extent.


It is a very common


occurrence, and


one of


the'greatest nuisances of Southern watering-places in winter,


for patients
sometimes,


lose their sleep, night after night,


with


a most


severe


persistent


weeks


cough,


seemingly not to be aware of it.


At all


events, they consult


no physician ;


distress


insomnia,


other


troubles arising from it, sometimes completely counterbalance


any good
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effect


they might


)metimes


have


derived


some of their


from


families ii


climate.
a conese-


quence of one person on a corridor coughing night after night.
It would be tiresome to multiply these examples. One might


adduce scores.


They are


mentioned


as a hint to those who


may


benefited


by them.


They


are not,


;ny means,


overdrawn.


The writer is willing to


the suspicion


that


he may have a selfish object.


Those who know him will give


him credit for a


better motive.


The following remarks, of


writer


than whom no one is


better qualified


give


advice


on this subject, are so appropriate in this connection,


that they


ought to be quoted at length


"Let not the invalid


, however,


trust too much to a change of climate.


Unfortunately for the


character


criminately, and


remedy,
without


been


recommended


proper consideration.


indis-
been


often


resorted to as a last resource or a forlorn hope


in cases susceptible of


alleviation


or permanent cure, it has


been


wholly


misapplied.


One


person


is hurried


from


native


land


with


certainty


of having.


sufferings


creased, and his life shortened


, instead of being allowed to die


in peace in his own family;


while


another, who might derive


much advantage from


the change, is sent abroad wholly un-


instructed in regard to the selection of


proper residence, or


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