On phthisis and the supposed influence of climate : being an analysis of statistics of consumpton in this part of Australia : with remarks on the cause of the increase of that disease in Melbourne / by William Thomson.

Date:
1879
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Credit: On phthisis and the supposed influence of climate : being an analysis of statistics of consumpton in this part of Australia : with remarks on the cause of the increase of that disease in Melbourne / by William Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    among them being perennial typhoid, the 60 deaths from phthisis in a total of 483 deaths from all causes occurring in that same month, evoked no official commentary. Phthisis fatality has evidently grown too familiar to call forth particular remark, or even arrest momentary attention. Amid dire indifference to the steady progress of the most fell disease in Victoria, it may be vain to try to determine a pathological problem, which, if medically settled, would be an honor to the higher physicians, and an incalculable benefit for the community. END STILLWELL AND CO., PRINTERS, MELBOURNE