Mont-Dore (Puy-de-Dome) hydromineral station and high air cure / conference by L. Landouzy.

  • Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy
Date:
1908
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Credit: Mont-Dore (Puy-de-Dome) hydromineral station and high air cure / conference by L. Landouzy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    themselves at Mont-Dore as asthmatics and are astonished at their being ordered to leave the place, the more so that at the beginning of the cure they experience in the inhalation rooms, certain temporary improve¬ ment, because in the luke-warm atmosphere of the vapours their peri¬ pheric circulation becom for a time easier. HI Although on reviewing the numerous kinds of illnesses in which the respiratory apparatus is called upon to benefit by the Mont-Dore cure, I have also many times pointed out those which could not profit by it, I think it would be useful to give you a few precise COUNTER INDI¬ CATIONS to the Mont-Dore cure. It is important for a doctor, when he has a hydro-mineral station in view to which his patients may pay tribute, to have no less clearly before him the summary of the circumstances, strange or not, to the principal affections which render this choice inopportune. He must not send to Mont-Dore either his hepatopathic, nor his nephro- pathic patients, for neither the treatment nor the climate would suit them, Neither must he send — excepting in cases of tracheo-bronchial adenopa¬ thy — any patient whose respiratory troubles might be imputable to a tumour on the thoracic or cervical organs, nor any one suffering from neo- plasy, wherever it may be localised. You will remember that a case of pronounced angeio-sclerosis would be badly placed here, if not on account of the thermal medication, at least on account of the altitude; and if in certain emphysematic bronchitic pa¬ tients the Mont-Dore cure very efficaciously relieves the consecutive over¬ worked state imposed on the right ventricule, it must not be forgotten that on the other hand neither the thermal treatment nor the High-air cure would be suitable to persons affected with cardiopathy which was not entirely secondary or more especially one which might be insufficiently compensated. If in a general manner of speaking, it is among the neuro-arthritic patients affected with functional or organic troubles of the respiratory organs, that the clientele of Mont-Dore may be recruited, you will of course remem¬ ber that not only the grave affections of the nervous system but also an excessively exaggerated neurasthenic excitability badly support the moun tain climate. As to pulmonary tuberculous patients, you will remember what I have said about the soil in which the grain germinates, and about the orga¬ nic resistance and its hbro-congestive reactional modality.
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