A treatise on pulmonary consumption; its prevention and remedy / [John Murray].

  • John Murray
Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on pulmonary consumption; its prevention and remedy / [John Murray]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dies—whose movements of course we do not presume to direct. It is a fact worthy of record, that females of the society of Friends are less frequently, ceteris paribus, the victims of pulmonary disease than others, and we have the authority of Dr. Armstrong for this. We would not exactly advocate their monotonous dress, though their attire is often elegant in its simplicity, but we admire the veil of modesty—the loveliest charm of female loveliness—and a profusion of lace and ribands is poor substitution. Gossamer gauze is by no means calculated to protect the system against the chills and damps of a hyperborean region like this of ours. The importance of climate in relation to the human constitution is one so very manifest as to obtrude itself on the most listless observer. Man, it is true, is a locomotive being, and as such has often tried the influence of exotic clime, and braved the vicissi- tudes of seasons and alternations of heat and cold. The human system can withstand, to a surprising degree, the shock of extremes, provided they are not too abrupt or long-continued; indeed, every season, as it revolves, presents these vicissitudes and alternations, though less divergent. European con- stitutions speedily become the victims of tropical clime ; or should the storm be weathered, the return to their native country soon numbers them with the dust of their fathers. They return to die and be buried in the graves of their ancestors. The human
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