The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic diseases, more particularly of the chest and digestive organs : comprising an account of the principal places resorted to invalids in England, the South of Europe, etc. ... With an appendix, containing a service of tables on climate / by James Clark.

  • Clark, James, Sir, 1788-1870.
Date:
1830
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    riorated by too close application to business, &c, and to whom relaxation of mind is as requisite as change of climate, we may permit the patient to choose the situation which is most agreeable to himself. But the great difference which exists in the physical characters of the climate of the places frequented by invalids in the South of Europe, and even in the southern parts of our own island, renders the selection of a winter residence for the invalid suffering under actual disease, a matter of vital importance. This is a subject which has, unfortunately, been little attended to; and the neglect of it has, I believe, arisen, in a great measure, from the opinion which has generally prevailed in this country, that climate is chiefly useful in consumptive diseases. Such an opinion could only have originated in a very limited acquaintance with the influence of climate on disease; and, indeed, it is so far from being a correct view of the matter, that, were the character of this remedy to be estimated by its effects on consumption, when fully formed, it would be justly valued at a very low rate. In dyspepsia, and disorders of the digestive organs generally, and in the nervous affections and distressing mental feelings which so often accompany these ; in hypo- chondriasis, in asthma, in bronchial diseases, in scrofula, and in rheumatism, the beneficial effects of climate are often far more strongly evinced