Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland : comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the south of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries / by James Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, James, Sir, 1788-1870.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland : comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the south of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries / by James Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    change of climate presented any prospect of advantage, and that by dragging the unfortu- nate victim of this terrible disease to the dis- tant shores of the Mediterranean, they are hurrying on the occurrence of the event they vainly hope to keep off. Patients in the ad- vanced stage of consumption would act more wisely in trying the effects of the milder parts of our own island, and, where that fails, they will pass the winter-months with more comfort, and I believe with as much prospect of advan- tage, in rooms kept at a graduated tempera- ture, amidst friends and all the comforts of home, as they would do hy a residence at most o^ the places frecjuented abroad,—still taking into the account the inconveniences of the journey thither. This remark is more particu- larly applicable to females, whose habits are much more congenial to such a mode of living, and who suffer in a far greater degree all the inconveniences and hardships of travelling. END OF PART FIKST.