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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    any texture, the aqueous fluid passes off without possessing any of the peculiar con- solidation mentioned above, when the aerial current is from the south-west, south, or west; and in this way the action of elec- tric and magnetic fluids may cause, many of them, physiological changes, and which produce various healthy or unhealthy in- fluences little known among scientific men ; for lung complaints invariably exhibit im- provement when the convex surface of the mercury has been sustained for any length of time. It is important to the subject under con- sideration to give a statement of the internal heat of the earth, for this too has a bearing on the subject of aerial phenomena. For the last 600 or 800 years, fire has been dug from the bowels of the earth in the shape of coals,—a mineral with which we are presumed to be perfectly familiar. In some instances, such as at Whitehaven in England, a gas—analogous to that of our