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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![The great observer Laennec, was of opinion that sea air was antagonistic to the development of phthisis, and more recently this opinion has been confirmed by the observations of Dr. Verhaeghe* of Ostend who shews that while in the deaths in the interior of the country there are 19 per cent from phthisis, in the hospital at the sea port of Ostend there are but 6'60 as the per centage from the same cause. That sea air may, in certain states of lung, prove irritatiug, is a point to be alluded to and illustrated hereafter. With respect to the civil community of Great Britian, it may be observed that among the deaths in London those from phthisis are 18 per cent: in Edinburer. 11'9: Leith. 10 3 ) and Aberdeen, 6 2.] Further northward still the disease seems remarkably un- common, for Mr. Keith Johnston writing in the Med: Chir : Review for 1857, observes; that the opinion long in- tertained, that phthisis is a disease peculiar to cold climates is quite erroneous, for the disease is almost unknown in the Arctic regions, Siberia, the Orkneys, Shetlands, and Hebrides. The almost complete exception of the Faro Isles from con- sumption is specially noticed also by Dr. W. P. Alison in the Edinburgh Medical Journal for November 1855, and Dr. J. E. Morgan in the Brit, and For. Med. Chir. Rev., 1860. draws attention to the rarity of phthisis along the N.W. coast of Scotland, as established by his own observation and that of others. In alluding to the possible causes of this immunity, Dr. Morgan considers the most efficient of these to be the way in which the Highland cabins are constructed, and the fact of their being warmed by means of peat-fires, the inhalation of the peat smoke seeming in a marked way to prevent and check the development of pulmonary tuberculosis. - own m xti trimpofl \'jdi ihitilv/' temo io dfi'.MiujolevQti Ganoniiflj * See Syd : Soc : Year Book 1859, p. 222. + Thc Lancet for 1857, page 90.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22284795_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
