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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    to raise an Institution for the reception and recovery of the poor ; but upon a particular principle, that diseases of the lungs, in the foremost ground of which are consumptions, require a pefculiar mode of treatment, and constructions adapted for their peculiar nature; and the proininent object ip to place persons subject tor these diseases,^^ and to retain them in an i artificial, or ■ factitious atmo- sphere always equal to the'temperature expressed by Fahrenheit's scale (pf 65 degrees ;r that is, - the iimedium summer, heat of. this climateiffoThis principle has' been applied > in practice by Doctor Buxton, with wjhat hejudges to be con- siderable success, im Such diseases, as-F have had, the opportunity of learnings through ia small publication of > his,' as well as through cases > he has published ^ in some of the monthly medical journals; and I doubt nqt that he- is fully con- vinced of the utility of the plan. ''' • ^ When.yanj assertion is made by nan