Scarborough as a health resort : its physical geography, geology, climate & vital statistics, with a health guide map, &c / [by A. Haviland].

  • Haviland, Alfred, -1903
Date:
1883
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Credit: Scarborough as a health resort : its physical geography, geology, climate & vital statistics, with a health guide map, &c / [by A. Haviland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. The Geographical distribution of Disease, a part of its K'atural History; the Geographical distribution of Consumption (Phthisis) in England and Wales, THAT part of tlio study of the ITatural History of Disease, which treats of its geographical distrihutiou, has heen much uegiccted; hence a powerful aid in the pre- ventive treatment of many of the grand causes of death has heen allowed to remain unused, from a want of the knowledge of its existence. When medicine first started into being as a science, imder the well directed genins of its great fathe]', Hippocrates, that branch of medical knowledge, knoAvn now as Prcveniire medicine, was ushered into the Avorld by this arch-physician, at the same time as its twin-sister. Curative medicine; and had the same fostering care been bestowed upon it as it enjoyed more than two thousand years 'ago at the hands of the enlightened medical teacher, and practi- tioner of Cos, it would have, in the interval of lost centuries, saved an incalculable number of lives, and have preserved the fame of its compairion from the charlatanry of the priest- craft of the earlier, and the leechcraft of the later periods, that have intervened between the death of Hippocrates and the present day. Health resorts are generally regarded more from a curative and recreative than from a preventive point of view, but as nearly all these places are becoming more and more selected as fit sites for educational purposes, it is of great importance that those resorts, which are eminent on account of their natural beauty, general healthfulness, easy access from the great centres of commercial industry, and abundant means for the amusement of all classes of visitors, like Scar-