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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    was less rare than now. The winter in the north of Italy, though not prolonged, is often very severe, while it lasts; in Piedmont for instance, the vines have to be removed from the poles which support them, to be prostrated in the dust, and at Turin the water in our room has been congealed in a single night to a solid mass of ice, and even the bottle broken by the expansion. Switzerland seems but ill adapted to diseases of the lungs ; the climate is exceedingly varied, and almost every modification may be obtained. The equality of temperature is liable to be disturbed or broken by gales from the Alpine regions, chilled by the glacier or the snow plane, and rushing toward the spot heated by the sun beams. Thus the hills around _ Lucerne are seldom free from a sprinkling of snow during the entire year. Berne is perhaps too ex- posed, and Lucerne and Zurich too low and humid. Dr. Clark thinks the neighbourhood of Geneva the least exceptionable. Geneva, however, we humbly conceive to be far too low and humid for pulmonary diseases, and a physician of that city advised an in- dividual, whom we knew personally, to move to Lau- sanne. Vevey is too hot during July and August, and Lausanne is much exposed to the north winds, and of necessity to sudden changes of temperature, though, asa whole, we should certainly much pre- fer Lausanne to any place we are acquainted with round the Lake of Geneva. The following is the
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