Change of air : considered with regard to atmospheric pressure, and its electric and magnetic concomitants, in the treatment of consumption & chronic disease. With a general commentary on the most eligible localities for invalids / by J. C. Atkinson.

  • Atkinson, John Charles.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Change of air : considered with regard to atmospheric pressure, and its electric and magnetic concomitants, in the treatment of consumption & chronic disease. With a general commentary on the most eligible localities for invalids / by J. C. Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    siderecl especially with regard to consump- tive patients. Professor Liebig has ingeniously made the distinction between what he terms plastic elements of nutrition, and elements of re- spiration. To the former belong To the latter, Vegetable fibrine. Fat. Vegetable albumen. Starch. Vegetable caseine. Gum. Animal flesh. Cane sugar. Grape sugar. Milk sugar. Pectine. In the flesh-eating animal, the waste of the tissues is very rapid, the temperature, as it were, being kept up in a great measure by the burning of azotised matter; in a vegetable feeder it is probably not so great, non-azotised substances being consumed in the blood in the place of the azotised. I have made the above extract to show the burning action or combustion during the chemical changes in the lungs, when a too