Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease.

  • Gilbert, Henry.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    This last subject will be rendered very clear by con- sidering respectively the influence of sudden transi- tions of temperature, as well as the effects of cold, heat, humidity, and dryness, on this disease. To these might be added many other advantages likely to accrue from statistical inquiries, such, for example, as the influence of certain occupa- tions, of sex, and of age. I cannot help noticing the vast importance of the present subject to insurance societies. They who speculate on human life ought certainly to be fami- liar with the circumstances which tend to shorten it; and a statistical history of consumption must therefore claim a leading place among the data on which they form their calculations. I have often been astonished when I contrasted the terror struck into mankind by the occasional appearance of some devastating epidemic, more especially when it ran its course in a short period, with the apparent apathy and cold indifference with which they look on at the frightful and equally cer- tain, though slower havoc, daily committed by this insidious scourge. Were cholera or fever to break out in this metropolis to-morrow, every family, possessing the means, would precipitately abandon