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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    English Physician, who has not had the advan- tage of visiting these places, and who may be of opinion that such a change of climate is use- ful, in directing his patients in the choice of a residence. If this hope shall be realized, the intention of this publication will be quite fulfilled, and I shall be more than repaid for any trouble I may have had in collecting the remarks it contains. My attention was particularly called to the subject of this Essay, on first going to the Con- tinent, from knowing that the minds of English Practitioners were generally undecided on the propriety of sending Consumptive Patients a- broad, and when tliey were sent, what piirticular situation deserved a preference over the others. 1 had abundant proof of this in the contradictory advices, which I found some of our most cele- brated Physicians had given to the invalids I met with; some of these being sent to the South of France indiscriminately, others being recom- mended to Marseilles, others to Hiere.>, many to Nice ; while not a few of their medical advisers c.iudidly avowed their ignorance of the most desirable lesidence, and left die choice to the discretion of their patients.