On change of air in the prevention and cure of pulmonary phthisis / by John C. Thorowgood.
- Thorowgood, John C. (John Charles), 1833-1913.
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On change of air in the prevention and cure of pulmonary phthisis / by John C. Thorowgood. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![In Mexico one travels for miles at the height of Mont Oenis, ■ the St. Gothard, or [the Gt. St. Bernard, enjoying an air which Englishmen and Frenchmen call niild, though the Spaniards are inclined to think it keen and cold, and for those in whose >]toags there is active disease, all allowi that this air is .(too sharp and;exciting. . rrodi [Uanxnino'D aoodasd cnadaeb^S 1o ■ h'itW^\ eta,-understand from these l'emacksy ^thei us& of idUie climate of a very elevated district^, to cause free development and expansion of tho limgs, but where disease is in active pro- gress, it is easy to see how this expansive process may increase irrritation aud so add to the dangeri^ndirmiftchjfil^qii.ance we • should infer that thesevery lofty i regions.,are bettenuadapted to prevent tho development of threatening pulmonary .disease, by oausing free -expansion of the,chest, tl^ifoOv/caatejilijb/ when it is in active and acute progress. .Ile&ii elbbea In the American Journal of Medical Science, Dr. Flint has furnished the details of , 24 examplas-;o£,arrest of phthisis: that have occurred iu ihisylowa practice, and added interes'ting observations upon the circumstances which seemed to.favour such arrest. In five cases in which the disease was thus ar- rested tho sole treatment consisted in causing the individuals to abandon sedentary occupations for those entailing abun- dant out-door exercise; and oight others, in whose ;casea .the disease after a time spontaneously oame to a stand still/torero persons of active out-doorwhabitajj lu urohanp tBBttBH edb ni The exercise in the open air (says .Dr. Flint) was not gen- erally of the kind which often goes by that title, consisting in simple airings by gentle walks or drives; but it consisted in rough occupation, involving at timos great exposure to vicis- situdes of weather. Change of climate occuiTed only in two cases prior to evi- dence of arrest. On this subject of climate Dr. Flint has been led to believe (with many others) that climate in iteelf exerts no special agency in determining an arrest of the dis- ease, but that it may favour this result indirectly by affording](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22284795_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
