The handy pocket-guide to health & health-restoring places / by Charles Rooke.

  • Rooke, Charles.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The handy pocket-guide to health & health-restoring places / by Charles Rooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bestowed on the young eliild might prevent the develop- ment of consniii^ion in the young man or woman, and this intelligent care should be directed towards the avoid- ance of those conditions which are favourable to con- sumption. Attention should therefore be paid to the following details:— Dumpness of soil is believed to produce the disease. Those, tlicrefore, who aro. liable to consumption should choose a dry site; aud, if pos.sible, the climate which is moderately warm, dry, and uniform. The importance of this point may bo gathered from the fact that a number of authorities are of opinion that a judicious sy.stem of sub- soil drainage would go a long way towards putting an end to the malady in this country. Impure air and ill-ventilated rooms help to develop consumption. People witli strong lungs find it injurious to breathe a vitiated atmosphere; how much more svill those suffer who have to use weak lungs ! Imperfect digestion arising from an insufficiency of suitable food is favourable to the development of the disease. Nourishing food of a digestible nature should therefore be given, and it should include plenty of good milk, and a moderate supply of fatty foods. It is frequently found that consumptive patients dislike fats; and consump- tion rarely occurs among those whose occupation brings them into daily contact with oil and fat, as, for example, cooks, butchers, tallowchandlcrs, &e. Animal food twice or thrice a day, farinaceous puddings, fish, green veget.ables and potatoes, eggs, raisins which have been freed from the ^ins, and a moderate allowance of stimulating beve- rages may also be taken; but the latter should bo discon- tinued if it flushes the face or quickens the pulse. Exercise and Clothing, Moderate exercise taken in the open air, as the strength of the individual will permit, is of primary importance.