The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic diseases : more particularly of the chest and digestive organs: comprising an account of the principal places resorted to by invalids in England and the south of Europe ... With an appendix, containing a series of tables on climate / By James Clark.

  • Clark, James, Sir, 1788-1870.
Date:
1829
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    of Italy. Phthisis pulmonalis is not a common disease, but chronic bronchial affections are fre- quent; and croup is occasionally met with. At one period, intermitting fevers were very prevalent about Pisa; but since the surrounding country has been drained and cultivated, they are com- paratively rare. In the hospital, however, the double tertian is endemic ; and a large proportion of the patients who undergo operations, have an attack of this fever, which sometimes even assumes the pernicious form.* Hospital gangrene is cer- tainly more common in the hospital at Pisa than in most other hospitals in Italy. Nervous dis- eases likewise prevail, but not so much as at Rome. Affections of the bones appear to be more common here than usual, particularly that called spina ventosa. Calculous diseases are so rare, that Vacca, during thirty-two years that he had been operating on such patients from all parts of Italy, has not had occasion to operate on one Pisan. * During my last visit to Pisa, the late Professor Vacca in- formed me that intermittent fevers were now so rare, that wishing to try the Piperine, a considerable time elapsed before they could find a case for the experiment. While he was stu- dying at Pisa, the wards in summer had an additional row of beds on account of the number of intermittents. At that period there was a good deal of uncultivated land and stagnant water around the town.