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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    nence from wine and every thing exciting, will often prove very beneficial. On this subject the invalid will, of course, be directed by a physician on the spot. In respect to invalids labouring under dyspepsia and hypochondriasis, some may spend the summer with the greatest advantage in travelling over Switzerland, while others will do better to take a course of the mineral waters of plombieres, of vichi, of ems, or of carlsbad (as the case may be) at their respective sources. But for further particulars on this subject, I beg to refer the reader to the article on Disorders of the Digestive Organs. I cannot close these few remarks on the choice of a summer residence without recalling the at- tention of the reader to the cautions I have already given on the subject of travelling. Unless a journey in hot weather is conducted with great cir- cumspection, the irritation and excitement arising from it in susceptible systems (especially where any organ is in a state of chronic inflammation, however slight in degree) will do more mischief than any advantage that can be derived from a short residence in the best climate, or from the use of the most valuable mineral waters. It will be more advisable that such an invalid should remain quietly in a situation that is not the most suitable to him (but the inconveniences of which may, in a great measure, be obviated by prudence) than expose himself to the danger of having his disease increased by a journey in hot weather.