On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell.

Date:: 1881

Credit: On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell. 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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of several different kinds in the descendants; the way in which one general morbid cause may produce different effects upon different persons, according to the conditions of health in which they happen to be at the time; and numberless other similar phenomena. These are matters of the highest importance in the right management and treatment of disease. Yet they are so little understood that the pains taken by a con- scientious doctor in their investigation are not appre- ciated by the majority of persons. ... Diseases of the heart and arteries are intimately connected with those of the lungs and throat; diseases of the lungs with those of the heart, arteries, and wind- pipe; diseases of the brain with those of the lungs, heart, and arteries; and all of these are often insepara- bly connected, in the relation of cause and effect, with affections of the stomach, liver, pancreas, kidneys, in- testinal glands, &c., «Sic. Therefore, for a doctor to limit his practice to diseases of the heart, to diseases of the throat, to diseases of the lungs, or to diseases of the windpipe, is to constitute a speciality so narrow that he is in danger of losing sight of the great principles of medicine. Cases 49 to 55, and also Case 28, [related in the work on Affections of the Heart] among many other points of interest, illustrate:— 1. The intimate and important interdependence of diseases of the heart and diseases of the brain. 2. The satisfactory effects of medical treatment, even in severe and incurable diseases of the heart and lungs. 3. The importance of lung complications as causes of death in heart disease. 4. The importance and dangers of aff'ections of the

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