Change of air : considered with regard to atmospheric pressure, and its electric and magnetic concomitants, in the treatment of consumption & chronic disease : with a general commentary on the most eligible localities for invalids / by J.C. Atkinson.

  • Atkinson J. C. (John Charles)
Date:
1867
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Credit: Change of air : considered with regard to atmospheric pressure, and its electric and magnetic concomitants, in the treatment of consumption & chronic disease : with a general commentary on the most eligible localities for invalids / by J.C. Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Torbay, and other marine residences in that beautiful county. I will not enlarge as I might on the disappointments that have been continually experienced; but the grave- yards of those places abundantly testify the deadly influence of misjudged recom- mendations. I may here notice that a few cases, to show some of the injuries that are inflicted on patients -by injudicious advisers, will be found in the following pages. Persons in health, when they leave home without any defined object in view, and have no taste for seaside studies, soon grow tired, if their destination is to the coasts, of what they call the monotonous face of the purple sea. They have no eyes for its ever-changing hues ; they feel sick with the odour of its salt-laden breezes ; they view it as the barren deep. They perceive no life in its rolling billows, no grandeur in its foam-crested breakers. The long lines of emerald light that flash and tremble on its pebbly shores when night draws