On change of air in the prevention and cure of pulmonary phthisis / by John C. Thorowgood.

  • Thorowgood, John C. (John Charles), 1833-1913.
Date:
1865
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Credit: On change of air in the prevention and cure of pulmonary phthisis / by John C. Thorowgood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ably expect tip see a case of active phthisis, will; great irritability and spasm of the air tubes, and frequent intercur- rent inflammations, improve, while the patient is hourly drawing through his intensely susceptible chest a keen and cold, though doubtless highly bracing air; and, on the other hand how often do we see disastrous results follow on the re- moval of a patient, languid, exhausted, and perhaps far gone in actual pulmonic softening, to one of thoso humid, enerva- ,• i ••, 1 . , v , • ui.VjPswwOR .0*21 ting, dyspepsia-breeding climates once held m high repute for the cure of pulmonary consumption of every kind and in every degree. • ■fum -. uJiiij CQQ?! YjllfJJfC1 , • •!•' yv<;ii Milt it J The obiect of the following pages will be to offer to the onr IIit'toi tOSfiisvB iul 110P^uBov , varus siu ai iti'ilt iswol reader a few remarks on change of air as a means of prevent- or.Muj id yUuT 'itiii oifei '.ml <,■; ,05 ia< q« ,Bfl0i4pj8.BnctrTuv ing, alleviating, and curing phthisis, and to afford aid in „ forming a judgment from recorded observations ^ and experi-r ence as to what appear to bo the best conditions of .climate to -Jcfuoo .din .rrofifcuE. to boumpe'i YTinJijauoo Hfoaiil l&imBia ooi cure or mitigate the disease in its various forms and stages. ^IIOUIilTn °0. V '.l/i: < <' • v'l i -'.I' • !l!i>i!llllil'Ji 111 K'>^lli!0 UnTrY/oq EB91 Enquiring, in the hrst place, as to the sort of climate aha , TfjiiHjumiio'j ojnT« r.r.n Kiuif rjiiyrri/s fiouftffUfpijoo.YiB atmosphere m which pulmonary consumption, or phthisis, is most apt to arise and make progress, we shall find R'opd eyi- j dence to shew that this disease is by no means one peculiar . to cold regions; for while in some of the coldj and most ex-^ ^ posed parts of the globe the disease is almWt un^o^, thei% are regions well known to be sheltered uud warm, where phthisis is very frequent in its onset, and rapid and^Wfentiflss'.' t jmBimianoo man jjnijT -j-nviinOT nan •nmomu ie.om & io iib m its progress. The following observations, by various authorities, will tend to shew how free some of^h6?cola regionsJaf the,'North are from the prevalence of phthisis^ anci'aM) now 'thiadisease appears to decrease in frequency with increase in the oleva- tion of a district above the level of the sea. In an interesting work by ^'Boudm'; chief surgeon of one of the military hospitals in Paris, we learn that there are countries where phthisis is quite unknown, as for instance,' Iceland; no phthisical patients are seen in Finmark; and the