Observations on pulmonary consumption, or an essay on the lichen islandicus, considered as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / [Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault].

  • Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive, 1759-1836
Date:
1806
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Credit: Observations on pulmonary consumption, or an essay on the lichen islandicus, considered as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder / [Jean-Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Peep <5 Though we approve Dr. Pugh’s opinion, we would afk, what occafion is there to leave England, fince it prefents the very advantages we go fo far in fearch of, and is exempt from the inconveniences attending diftant changes of place? If change of air, in an atmofphere moit equal and leaft agitated by tempefts, is advan- tageous to perions of weak or difeafed lungs, we ought to chufe this atmofphere as near as pofiible to the country where fuch invalids have previoully lived; for if it be too remote, they will be expofed to new dangers in the journey. The different temperature of diftant climates, the different exhalations from land and water, from animals, vegetables and minerals, have a powerful influence on different conftitutions, and on health in general. To thefe important conliderations, which are fuffcient to determine our voluntary choice of fituations for invalids as near their own homes as poflible, we may now add the imperious motive of necefflity. An am- bitious enemy has fhut the Englifh out from France, Italy, and Spain, fo that now they ought to do what reafon has long fuggefted to them, that is to feek for and prepare {uitable fituations for invalids, intheir own iflands. Bath