Climatic treatment of consumption and chronic lung diseases / by John C. Thorowgood.

  • Thorowgood, John C. (John Charles), 1833-1913.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Climatic treatment of consumption and chronic lung diseases / by John C. Thorowgood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    drives; but it consisted in rough occupation, involv- ing at times great exposure to vicissitudes of weather. Change of climate occurred only in two cases prior to evidence of arrest. On this subject of climate Dr. Flint has been led to believe (with many others) that chmate in itself exerts no special agency in deter- mining an arrest of the disease, but that it may favour this result indirectly by affording better opportunity for exercise in the opeh air, and furnish- ing objects of interest to the mind which will secure that object. The above quoted remarks, from such a careful and experienced observer, are most important; experience from the time of Sydenham has been continually showing how out door exercise, especi- ally when taken on horse back, can break through a constitutional tendency to consumption, and can even aid most powerfully to arrest the disease when it is fairly in progress. Sydenham used to say that horse exercise was as much a specific for incipient consump- tion, as was bark for the ague, and the late Dr. Parrish of Philadelphia believed that he cured him- self of consumption by travelhng on his rounds in a vehicle without springs, using this as a substitute for a saddle itself. We see now from the foregoing observations col- lected from various trust-worthy and competent authorities, that pulmonaiy phthisis, is a compara- tively rare disease in Northern regions, where the air is pretty uniformly cold and bracing, and rare also in
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