Marine climates in the treatment of tuberculosis : the opening address delivered at the Hastings Meeting of the British Balneological and Climatological Society, on March 16th, 1907.

  • Ewart, William, 1848-1929.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Marine climates in the treatment of tuberculosis : the opening address delivered at the Hastings Meeting of the British Balneological and Climatological Society, on March 16th, 1907. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    look is precarious. True recovery is hardly to be expected except in unilateral cases ; but of all of them it may be said that prolongation of life can only be secured with the help of the most favourable conditions. THE CLIMATIC TREATMENT. GENERAL REMARKS In estimating the results obtained at the seaside and else- where, the precision of the mathematical method is illusive. It is wasted upon a clinical material ill suited for statistics owing to its feature of latency at the beginning, of prolonged uncertainty as to the type and severity of disease, and of pre- cariousness at the late stages. Greater reliance can be placed upon experienced clinical observations, and upon some of those great simple facts which, like the face of the sun, are rarely looked at. The first group, that of threatened, or of the earliest demonstrable tuberculosis, furnishes the best results of marine treatment.