The Alpine winter cure : with notes on Davos Platz, Wiesen, St. Moritz, and the Maloja / by A.T. Tucker Wise.

  • Alfred Thomas Tucker Wise
Date:
1884
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Credit: The Alpine winter cure : with notes on Davos Platz, Wiesen, St. Moritz, and the Maloja / by A.T. Tucker Wise. 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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    tilised remedial agents in the hot air of the batteries if necessary, and distribute the drug to any single chamber without infecting other rooms by its odour. The extreme cleanness of the internal atmosphere, however, renders such a proceeding quite superfluous, as the frequent changes in the air of the whole building, produce with the ozonised currents, a state of purity perhaps never before attained in any large habitation. Coupled with the large quantities of solar light received by the Maloja the results on the quality of the blood (especially in ansemic persons dwelling at these altitudes) can only be highly beneficial. The comparatively slight attention which is given to the morbid condition of impoverished blood might lead one to estimate lowly its importance. Cases of “pernicious anaemia” are doubtless not very common, and a serious termination of the general disease rare; but the check this constitutional state gives to healthy development, physical force, and mental vigour, as well as to convalescence from other debilitating causes must never be forgotten. hTor must either the susceptibility to other complaints which anaemia favours, be lost sight of. Even in slight cases, the state of languor felt, discontent with ordinary existence, lack of interest and energy in worldly affairs, sometimes makes life scarcely worth living. The sudden change which the air, sunlight, and scenery of the Engadine give to this depression is little short of marvellous. Marked improve- ment usually setting in after a short stay; unlike the results of a sojourn in the South, where, not infrequently, the full force of “ change ” is not perceived until a return is made to the cooler climate at home.
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