Hastings considered as a resort for invalids / [James Mackness].

  • Mackness, James, 1804-1851.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Hastings considered as a resort for invalids / [James Mackness]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HASTINGS A RESORT FOR INVALIDS. CHAPTER I. GEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE SOIL OF HASTINGS. Climate—a Cause of Consumption—the Necessity of Change as a Remedy.—Hastings—Its Advantages in part derived from its Soil —Geological view of its Strata, its Composition and its Influence on the Temperature and Moisture of the Atmosphere.—Dryness of the Downs.—Surrounding Scenery.—Absence of Malaria—its Effects in Italy.—Rarity at Hastings of Diseases dependent on Malaria. Str James Criark, in his excellent treatise on Pulmonary Consumption, says, ‘‘ A cold, damp, and variable climate not only gives the predisposition to this disease, but becomes its exciting cause, and determines in an especial manner its local manifesta- tion in the lungs.” While, therefore, invalids thus predisposed continue to reside in a climate which fosters their disease, but little relief must be expected B