A treatise on consumption; embracing an inquiry into the influence exerted upon it by journeys, voyages and change of climate. With directions for the comsumptive visiting the south of Europe. And remarks upon its climate. Adapted for general readers / By William Sweetser.

  • Sweetser, William, 1797-1875.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A treatise on consumption; embracing an inquiry into the influence exerted upon it by journeys, voyages and change of climate. With directions for the comsumptive visiting the south of Europe. And remarks upon its climate. Adapted for general readers / By William Sweetser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. I am not ignorant of the objections urged against the introduction of medical works to the public gen- erally; and well know the hazard of countenancing the popular employment of active medicinal agents. The disposition among mankind is already too strong to tamper with our art, to trifle with the well- being of the animal constitution, and needs be re- pressed rather than encouraged. But a brief state- ment of the design and plan of the present volume, it is believed, will exempt it from the objections usually raised against works of this character. In the first place, I shall give a brief and general history of consumption, and the climates in which it is most prevalent, its relative mortality, &c. Next, I shall mtroduce a general view of the lungs and their functions. Then the pathology or nature of the disease will be considered. The physical characters indicating a tendency to consumption. Its relative prevalence in the two sexes, and the 5 |