The climatic treatment of consumption : a contribution to medical climatology / by James Alex. Lindsay.

  • Lindsay James Alexander.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The climatic treatment of consumption : a contribution to medical climatology / by James Alex. Lindsay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    result must not discourage further investigation ; but we cannot suspend our treatment of consumption in the bare hope that the eager search for specifics may perchance result in a success which seems so much less probable than failure. We have in change of climate not a specific it is true, but a well-attested means of palliation, and sometimes of cure. The consideration of the principles and mode of appli- cation of climatic treatment can hardly be considered ill-timed even in the full noon of this, the microbe era of medical science. Note to Chapter I. In discussing the causes of consumption the author has kept in view the profound remark of Dr. H. G. Sutton : There are many causes of disease ; we can never say there is one cause of disease. Therefore it is exact to say, 'This disease has arisen in these conditions.' As much as possible, in thinking about pathology, endeavour to get rid of the word ' cause.' {Medical Pathology, p. 3.) This remark may be commended to those who think that the discovery of the invariable presence of a bacillus in tubercle has solved the whole question of the causation of consumption. ]
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