Practical suggestions for the prevention of consumption / by G. Calvert Holland.

Date:
1850
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    PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOK THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION. CHAPTER I. THE CHARACTER OP THE CONSUMPTIVE PREDISPOSITION AND ITS FREQUENT MANIFESTATIONS. I. By the term predisposition is understood such a condition of the body, or such a conformation of cer- tain parts of it, as, under particular circumstances, gives rise to a specific disease or class of dis- eases. Thus a predominance of the nervous system, creates a susceptibihty to nervous affections ;—of the lymphatic, to scrofulous morbid changes;—of the cu'culatory,—characterised by a fulness of the ener- gies of life,—a tendency to inflammatory attacks; and lastly, a peculiar delicacy of the vital povrers generally, not unfrequently associated with the im- perfect development of the chest,—a proneness to phthisis. The consideration of these peculiarities vpould open out an important field of inquiry, and one indeed of great practical value ; but the prosecution of it would withdraw the attention from the immediate object of