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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    these sounds give to the human ear, at times and on special occasions, characteristic ex- pressions of pain, quite dissimilar to the natural vocal tone,—I may almost say of ordinary conversation among these animals, —and which may be pronounced as the re- sult of physical pain or complaint. And who does not know that man, like- wise, when his nervous strings or fibres are out of order, and he is in a state of health termed under a cloud,—when the electric forces are perturbed by a varying weight of the circumambient medium, and he is simi- larly affected,—what an outcry he makes! how uncomfortable he renders his household by his complaints! quite a changed crea- ture, say many of his family. Evils, mis- fortunes, calamities, now and to come,— however imaginary in themselves,—have in the sufferer s mind a character of reality which he cannot shake off, till a sudden rise in the glass restores him again to renewed life and agreeable prospects. Is not this,