On Sydenham, its climate and palace : with observations on the efficacy of pure air, esoecially when combined with intellectual and physical recreation, in the prevention and treatment of disease / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock.

  • Maddock, Alfred Beaumont, 1815-1862.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On Sydenham, its climate and palace : with observations on the efficacy of pure air, esoecially when combined with intellectual and physical recreation, in the prevention and treatment of disease / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the generality of rheumatic patients, seeing that our soldiers and sailors are frequently invalided from the West Indies on account of rheumatism.” Dr. Grainger, in his ‘ Essay on the more common West India Diseases,’ says that these diseases are more prevalent there than in this country, especially sciatica; and Dr. Wright adds, that acute rheumatism is frequent in the West Indies. Hereditary gout, Dr. Musgrave states, is often as severe in these islands as in England. Few individuals have suffered more than myself from general rheumatism and neuralgia of the heart. I may therefore truly say, my own misfortunes teach me to pity those of others— “ Haud ignara mali miseris succurrerc disco; ” and have prompted me to pay no ordinary attention to this painful class of diseases, and the result produced upon them by atmospheric influence. The conclusion I have arrived at—partly from the beneficial effects expe- rienced in my own case, as well as from an extended observation among all classes of my fellow-sufferers—is, that for the amelioration of the protean forms of these maladies, more particularly in chronic conditions, the air of Sydenham is, above all places, peculiarly—I might almost say specially — adapted. For these reasons, 1 have pitched my tent at UprEit Sydenham. Fellow-sufferer, “ go thou and do likewise! ” GENERAL OR NERVOUS DEBILITY. ]>y the term “ Debility ” is generally understood an originally defective condition of the animal system, either