An inquiry into the curability of consumption, the prevention and the progress of improvement in the treatment / by James Turnbull.

  • Turnbull, James, 1818-1897.
Date:
1859
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Credit: An inquiry into the curability of consumption, the prevention and the progress of improvement in the treatment / by James Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. YIL PEEVENTIVE TEEATMENT OF CONSUMPTIO]^. PREVENTABLE NATURE OF THE DISEASE SHOWN BY ITS RELATIVE PREVALENCE IN DIFFERENT CLASSES. HYGIENIC RULES NECESSARY FROM INFANCY IN THOSE HEREDITARILY PREDISPOSED. PURE AIR. VENTILATION. —- ACTI- VITY OF RESPIRATORY FUNCTION. BENEFICIAL INFLUENCE OF PERFECT OXYGENATION OF THE BLOOD. EFFECT OF MOUNTAIN AIR. CHOICE OF A PROFESSION IN THOSE PREDISPOSED. HORSE EXERCISE. GYMNASTIC EX- ERCISES. RECOMMENDATIONS OF ARMY COMMISSIONERS FOR PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION IN SOLDIERS. CLIMATE AND CHANGE OF AIR. AMOUNT OF CONSUMPTION IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE GLOBE. RELATIVE AMOUNT IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF ENGLAND. DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES WHERE LEAST FREQUENT. INLAND AND SEA-COAST CLIMATES. SEA VOYAGES. FACILITIES AFFORDED BY SCREW-STEAMERS TO MEDITERRANEAN AND OTHER PLACES. REGULATION OF MENTAL AND BODILY FUNCTIONS. THOSE OF THE SECRETING ORGANS. REMEDIAL TONIC TREATMENT. That consumption is a disease which ahiiost all clebih- tating influences have more or less tendency to induce, is an important fact which has been kept prominently in view in the preceding pages. A due appreciation of this fact must also rest at the foundation of all our efforts to ward off the disease in those hereditarily predisposed, or who have shown any signs of pulmonary weakness; and most of the ordinary rules bearing on the preservation of the health may also be apphed in relation to the pre- ^ vention of consumption. We have already shown the vast importance of this subject, and the wide field it presents for such sanitary improvements as would undoubtedly diminish the mor- tality from this disease,—from the facts that, in England, nearly sixty thousand persons die annually of consump-