The climatic treatment of phthisis / by Harold Williams.

  • Williams, Harold
Date:
1885
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    ing embroidery, congregate all day in small, ill-venti- lated low rooms ? ” I, for my part, have no more doubt that it is the open-air life and not the climate, that has granted this immimity to the men than I have that it is the sedentary occupation and impure air and not the climate which has proved so destructive to the women. Moreover, upon this subject of immunity the greatest contradiction of statement prevails. For example, the statement, “ the exceeding fatality of consumption, etc.,” in Florida, is answered by the counter assertion that Florida at the time of writing had no “ State Board of Health and no registration of deaths outside of the city of Jacksonville,” showing that any statement in regard to the prevalence of con- sumption in Florida, at that time, must have been ])urely conjectural; and again, “ The investigations of Hirsch have shown that neither the geographical posi- tion nor the temperature have anything to do with the prevalence of consumption . . . which is very com- mon ... in Siberia,” ®® while on the fifty-ninth page of Denison’s book we find on the contrary the asser- tion : “ In Siberia phthisis is very rare.”®* Another form of the illogical argument at present in vogue is: That A. recovered in —ton, therefore we should send B. to —ton. Yet this argument might be as correctly stated by saying: “ C. died in —ton, there- fore we should not send B. to —ton. The sentimental aspect of the question demands but little notice at our hands. It is hardly necessary for me to call attention of members of this Society to the pliysiological effects of the perfumed zephyrs, or the liealtl'.-giving breezes which figure so largely in the de- serijitions of health resorts found in our medical jour- nals. I have simplj^ alluded to the subject in order to •a Hr. Talbot Jones, M. Y. J., Sept., ISTO. 8SC. F. Ktnworlby. F V. Jv!. J., Oci. niiu Nov., ISSO. S3 Zieiusseii’.s Arciuv., A el. v, p. 4yi). S-* Denison, op. cil., p. 6!>.