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
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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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    Number per cent Subject to spitting blood. catarrh. 12-50. 12-50. 104 men having less than 500 cubic feet of air to breathe. 115 men having from 500 to ] . „_ 0.40 000 cubic feet of air. °°' ° ' 101 men having more than ) ^ 600 cub. ft. of air. J ^ ^fe^c^es^of un^ou1^^^^[^i^^f^^^^)^l^lock, 393, more than half, were individuals following sedentary in- door employments, conditions which, as Dr. Pollock observes, imply two things which are preeminently conducive to phthisis—want of fresh air, and a .minimum of muscular waste and renewal. In those of the phthisical poor who, whether from choice or by necessity, confine themselves entirely to one small close room, the ■'progress '6f their: disease is truly fearful to witness, and our most approved remedies absolutely uwdrlilleBsioidqmnanoo mo\t vjWajhom odj QihlgbiolitaeH nl ni Dfese^atioBs/bf m£> (<awttj made on ai small, scaled &&$tQftfer a limited area, confirm the above statements. With respect to the influence of the air of crowded cities, I have noticed in hospital and dispensary practice how, among the poorer classes, phthisis has commenced its attack soOn ■'• after: the individual, previously resident in the country, had settled in some of the more densely populated regions of London, and I have been struck in more than one instance with the mark- ed improvement which has taken place on the patient (Shift- ing town to go for a season into a country district reputed even damp and cold, but where the air would be purer and fresher than it could be in the courts and alleys of London. When the remove has i been to a healthy: part of the country, the improvement has been proportionably much greater. In tho case of some, who from living in a close atmosphere have got into a low state of vitality, I have noticed a ten-