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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    May it please your Royal HigJmess— It must be very evident, that what is taken very frequently, and that necessarily so, if suitable in itself, must tend much to the promotion of health. No proofs need be given that the regu- lation of diet is .of the utmost service in preserving health and in curing dis- ease. This, however, may be much in- termitted, and is not so,, constantly necessary as respiration. But air must be considered also to act a part of as great importance for the lungs in parti- cular, and for the body generally, as food to the stomach. If, therefore, the proper admixture and temperature of respirable air could be arrived at, there can be no doubt but the results would be as favourable in the treatment of con- sumption as the nature of things’ would allow. I am not so sanguine as to think
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