Volume 2

A manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics / by I. Burney Yeo.

  • Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914.
Date:
1902
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    MANUAL OF Medical Treatment. fart *?F, PHTHISIS, OR CONSUMPTION (PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS). (Co ntinued.) CHAPTER III. CLIMATIC TREATMENT IN PHTHISIS. Difficulty in Selection of Climates—Cases imsuited to this Treat- ment—Qualities required in a suitable Climate—Purity of Air tlie Chief—Objects sought in Change of Climate — Division of Climates—Exam]Dles of each Division—Value of Change of Climate as a Prophylactic—Marine Stations—Sea Voyages—Mountain Stations —State of the Lungs, etc., as Indications for Selection of Climate—Disease Limited and Localised—South African Eesorts—The long Sea Voyage— Climate of Altitudes and the .ilpiue Cure—Its Characters and Effects—Cases Suitable—Need for Discrimination in Selection of Cases—Intermediate Stations—Cases with more advanced and serious Lesions and Chronic Cases—Egypt— Pau—Amolie—Division of Marine CKmates into Sedative, Stimulating, and Intermediate—Characters of each, and Cases suitable to them—Examples. The important part wliich cliiiialc plays in tlio treatment and progress of cases of phtliisis is universally admitted. The application, however, of suitable climatic treatment to individual cases is often a question of some difliculty. The choice of a particular climate for a particular case will, frequently, have to be determined by indi- vidual and personal rather than by general and pathological considerations. Ij