The book of climates : acclimatization, climatic diseases, health resorts and mineral springs, sea sickness, sea voyages, and sea bathing / by D.H. Cullimore.

  • Cullimore, D. H. (Daniel Henry)
Date:
1891
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    have a better chance if sent during the cold season to the less elevated and drier hills, for it is amongst those who return home during the cold weather and the catting east winds that hepatic congestion, suppuration, and congestive pneumonia almost entirely occur. Consumption complicated with bow^el disease does badly in the tropics. Advanced cases during the hot season in the tropics would probably, from the greater coolness of the air, derive much benefit on the hills. Haemoptysis, if quiet is main- tained, may sometimes be relieved, and perspiration and ex- pectoration almost invariably so. Very high situations are not advisable. Those convalescent from an attack of acute dysentery whose system is lowered, dyspeptics or those with functional visceral derangement, and the weakly and de- bilitated, will derive benefit from change to the hills. Chronic dysentery, chronic hepatitis, chronic intermittent fever, chronic or severe cardiac or respiratory disease, will probably be rendered worse by change to the hills. Sufferers from syphilitic cachexia and rheumatism had better remain on the plains. It is right to observe that some authorities recommend very high and dry elevations as most suitable for rheumatism, gout, and neuralgia. Leprosy, as I have pointed out in the Medical Press and Circular in the year 1887, would probably derive great benefit from the pure, dry, and invigorating air of the hills. Leprosies should be set on the hill-stations, and not, as at present, located in such damp situations as Port Blair, Malabar coast, or the island of Molokai. In the tropics mountain climates are especially useful to delicate women and children, and the latter, if obliged to go to the tropics, should, if possible, go there at once. Nervous depression and irritability from slight touches of the sun, or overwork, leucorrhoea, uterine weakness, leading to prema- ture confinements and puerperal mania, are benefited on the hills. Sufferers from intractable skin diseases, as the Burmese ringworm or boils, will on the hills be placed in the best position to get rid of their troubles. Dr. Oertel, in his