Notes on Spa and its chalybeate springs / by Thomas Cutler.

  • Cutler, Thomas, 1810-1879.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Notes on Spa and its chalybeate springs / by Thomas Cutler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    the poor sempstress on whom these causes act; young ladies of the middle and even higher orders do not always escape. Confectionary and made dishes; rooms darkened by massive draperies; too much car- riage exercise and too little exercise on foot; close, heated, ill-ventilated theatres and ball-rooms are agents in the production of a vitiated state of the blood, of a diminution of the due proportion of red globules, hardly less pernicious than those which operate upon females of the lower classes of society. Contrast these pitiable chlorotic beings, of what- ever class, exposed to such deleterious influences, with their pallid, yellowish and sometimes even greenish hue; their general muscular weakness, faintness and fatigue u[)on the smallest physical exer- tion; their feeble, unequal and silky pulse; the coldness of the surface and extremities, and their organic pro- stration evinced by the pale clammy tongue, torpid bowels, and disordered secretions, with the ruddy peasant girl or with those light active cheerful rosy females who are placed in more fortunate circum- stances, and whose health is cared for by the wisdom and enlightened affection of those who take charge of their developement! There is the same difference be- tween these two orders of beings as between the sickly