A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption; Its Prevention and Remedy (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. TROPICAL, INSULAR, AND ALPINE CLIMATE A MARINE ATMOSPHERE THE SEA COAST TOWN AND COUNTRY. Success of exotic clime in Pulmonary Consumption will depend on a variety of circumstances, such as the constitution of the invalid and stage of the disease, with the specific kind of Pulmonary affection, as whether it belong to that called pituitous or tubercular Consumption. On this question it must be acknowledged there has been much diversity and contrariety of sentiment and opinion. A change of climate will act in some measure, no doubt, as diversity in diet does on the system; by change of place there may be a change of density and of elasticity in the air. Its relation to moisture may be very different, and its electric character and condition perfectly novel compared with that to which it may have been accustomed?the very pathway, as to its absorbent or retentive character, may be possessed of meteorological relations of a different stamp, and the breeze which fans the spot one more favourable than that pneumatic atmosphere from which the constitution has escaped, since a natural circumvallation may exclude such winds as might prove injurious, andyet leave it to be freely ventilated by the current which contributes to salubrity?there may in feet be " Health in the breeze and shelter in the storm." There can be no doubt that absence from scenes that fret, irritate, and tire, and an introduction to or acquaintanceship with scenes and subjects of a different complexion, must contribute by their novelty and excitement to allay the fever of the mind, and remove one great obstacle to the remedial measures resorted to: and it cannot be denied that mental care and inquietude are not only great drawbacks to the full operation of medicines, but in many instances, ...