Four hundred cases of phthisis / by F.M. Sandwith.

  • Sandwith, Fleming Mant, 1853-1918.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Four hundred cases of phthisis / by F.M. Sandwith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By F. M. SAND WITH, M.D., •PHYSICIAN TO KASlt 15L AINI HOSPITAL, CAIKO. During the past seveu winters 104 phthisical visitors have been treated by me in Egypt, and during the last two years I have bad under my care some 298 hospital in- patients. The visitors have all been from England, with the exception of six from France, Australia, and the United States. English Patients. It is not intended in any way to make a comparison between the English and the Oriental cases, because all the former, travelling for their health, were well provided with money and friends to help them take care of themselves. Moreover the bulk of them were chronic cases, not suffei- mg from fever, and not in the last stage of the disease. Hence the extraordinary difference in mortality. I have taken pains to eliminate all cases of “ threatened phthisis,’ and of doubtful delicacy after pneumonia or other diseases, because these are the cases that are obviously the best to send abroad for one winter. Moreover I have taken some pains to inform myself as to the after condition of patients