Letters addressed to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, on consumption : containing remarks on the efficacy of equable and artificial temperature in the treatment of that disease / by Thomas Sutton.

Date:
1814
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Credit: Letters addressed to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, on consumption : containing remarks on the efficacy of equable and artificial temperature in the treatment of that disease / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ma^ it please your Koyal Highness— In my former communications I have rendered it evident that the facti- tious and equable temperature of 65% as employed in this climate, has not been so effectual as to have prompted those who have been able the most to recommend it, to make statements from which we can conclude, that much advantage has been derived. We still hear, as before, that consumption is a very fatal disease; there is no change in the tone of practitioners, on account of the employment of this atmosphere, which might lead to the inference that we are more successful than usual in its treatment. It has like- wise been stated, on good grounds, that consumption is as fatal in those countries whose equable and mild temperature has been considered to be highly favourable to