Hints on the pathology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of thoracic consumption / by J.C. Hall.

  • Hall, John Charles, 1816-1876.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Hints on the pathology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of thoracic consumption / by J.C. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I]5 Torquay. As a winter residence, I decidedly give the preference to Torquay. Here the patient can command the advantages of a considerable tract of sheltered country; and, let the wind blow from whatever quarter it may, some part or other may be selected for a ride or walk that will be quite free from its ejBfects. Its site also, on the southern declivity of a range of lofty hills composed for the most part of calcareous rocks, renders it comparatively dry. The surrounding country is beautiful and picturesque in the highest degree, and the accommodation for all grades of society is excellent. Foreign Climates. It is only in the earliest stage, or rather in the stage preceding the deposit of tubercle, that muc' advantage is to be derived from leaving the shores of th country. In the selection of a climate for any particular patient due regard must be had to the dry or moist character of the accompanying bronchitis. In the former case, Madeira, Tene- riffe, the Azores, Rome, Pisa,—in the latter, Egypt, Cadiz, Algiers, Genoa, or Nice, may be selected.* When there is a strongly marked predisposition to the tuberculous constitution a removal to a warmer climate for three or four years, about the age of puberty, may be and often is a means of arresting its development. But, when the disease is more advanced, and more particularly when softening has commenced or cavities have formed, on no consideration ought such a one to be sent away. It is often imagined that such islands as Madeira are free from consumption; but no greater mistake can be made, for consumption and scrofula are frequent there. Whilst, there- fore, we may be certain that change of air and scene is .in the earlier periods of the disease an important element in the plan of treatment, when it is advanced we may be equally cer- ♦ Dr. Archibald Smith speaks highly of the inland localities of Peru, particularly of Canta, as a residence in phthisis. H 2