On the nature, treatment and prevention of pulmonary consumption and incidentally of srofula : with a demonstration of the cause of the disease / by Henry M'Cormac.

  • Henry MacCormac
Date:
1855
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Credit: On the nature, treatment and prevention of pulmonary consumption and incidentally of srofula : with a demonstration of the cause of the disease / by Henry M'Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    expulsioni inatcriaj noxiaj e pulmone, et inutationi isti salutari et necessariaj sanguinis. An active varied ex- istence in tlie open air, is life to the young, wliercas in- action and confinement are death ! Le repos est toujours meurtrier aux enfans, Baumes, Traite sur le Vice Scro- phuleux et sur les Maladies qui en proviennent. ]Mi\ Carmichael in the essay already cited, dwells on the evils of deficient exercise, the motion of the diaphragm when the body is at rest, only sufficing to prevent com- plete stagnation of the blood in the liver. Dr. Guy found the pressmen about one-fourth less liable to tuber- cle than the more stationary compositors of the same office. Lombard's important testimony I shall more particularly advert to again. Anything, as indolence, low spirits, insufficient clothing, bodily debility, inade- quate nourishment, lessens the inclination .for an open- air life, and directly or indirectly conduces to the morbid hematosis of the blood, the inevitable result of continu- ously respiring a decayed and decaying atmosphere. I remember once seeing a gentleman. It was in one of the midland English counties. His voice was hollow as were his cheeks, his eyes glistened with a preternatural fue, his finger-ends were clubbed, else spent and ema- ciated, he expectorated great masses of matter without cease, his whole person was shrunk und attenuated, while he laboured under a continual chill, sure harbin- gers of the shadow of death! He was attired with the most careful precision. Surrounded with every comfort apparently that wealth and solicitude could supply, he had needed but one thing the absence of which destroyed