Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland : comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the south of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries / by James Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, James, Sir, 1788-1870.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland : comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the south of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries / by James Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    be rather inclined to visit its sins on the real parent, I think it necessary to state, in a few words, the prin- cipal reasons that have weighed with me in yielding to your suggestions. In the first place, with regard to the investigation of the subject to which almost the whole of Part First is devoted—viz. the influence of Southern Climates on Consumption;—the inquiry is of such immense importance at present, when this disease is so alarm- ingly prevalent, and when its victims crowd in such numbers to the countries treated of, that the only objection 1 could have to the publication of my remarks, was the prospect I had of greatly enlarging them, by additional experience, at no very distant ])eriod, As, however, many circumstances might occur to prevent the accomplishment of this hope, it has been considered better to communicate without further delay, information, which, though not exten- sile, may yet be useful, than to risk, for the sake of possible improvement or personal credit, the occur- rence of a contingency, which, after all, might pos- sibly never be attained. With respect to the subject of Part Second, (the account, namely, of Hospitals and Medical Schools J although the latter consideration is equally applicable, the former is certainly not so : as perhaps compen- sating the want of this it may, however, be urged that the novelty of much of the matter comes in as an ar- gument sufficiently exculpatory:—since it must be