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.

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1881
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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.

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    suitable Climates.—Classified list of Climates, with special com- ments and notes 209-216 Appendix. I. Form of enquiry into the history of Winter Cough II. Cough. Experiments by Dr. 0. Kohts . . III. Catarrhus JEstivus; Hay, Eose, or Peach Cold, or Asthma New Remedy for Sneezing . IV. The Function of the Uvula . V. On Thumb-Sucking .... VI. Very intractable and chronic case of Spasmodic Asthma and Bronchial Congestion . VII. On Poulticing by Steam VIII. Egypt. Notes for Travellers IX. Climate of France .... X. Climate of Pau XI. Climate of South Africa XII. Arcachon. Notes for Travellers . XIII. Temperature at Great Heights 235 237 238 246 247 247 248 250 258 275 276 277 279 281 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Plate I. Figs. 1, 2, Sections of Lung : Second stage of Bronchitis ; and Chronic Bronchitis xiii II. Figs. 3, 4, Sections of Lung: Bronchiectasis and Em- physema xiv To each plate are appended concise statements of the signs by which the diseased conditions are indicated during life. Woodcuts—1. Dr. Berkhart's Instruments for Artificial Expiration . 168 2. Dr. Dobell's Residual Air-pimip for Emphysema . 171 3. Apparatus for Poulticing by Steam—Appendix VII. . 257 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE FIRST EDITION. Winter Cough is one of the most troublesome complaints with which general practitioners have to deal, and anything like a successful attempt to exiilain it in a scientific way, and to bring its treatment into harmony with snch an explanation, must be considered as good ser\nco done. . . Dr. Dobell, as physician to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, and as having takeu great pains in the investiga- tion of the facts touching those diseases, speaks on them with authority. The value of the book consists mainly, in the accumulation and analysis of these facts. . . On this difBcult subject (Emphysema) there is a growing disposition to believe as Dr. Dobell does. . . his view involves the hope that if we can succeed in curing Chronic Bronchitis and other affections of the air passages leading to thickening and obstnic- tion, we shall by so much succeed inpreventing Emphtjaema. . . . The chapter on treat- ment is of great practical interest ... he wisely insists u])on the importance of sum- mer as the sea.'on for pursuing treatment for the radical cure of Winter Cough. . . The paper (on Post-nasal Catarrh; shows that the author has carefully studied the disease . . . We think this book calculated to make us more thoughtful and more successful in regard to a most important class of diseases.—LancH. Contains Dr. Dobell's opinions on a very common and annoying disorder, to the elucidation of the pathology and treatment of which he has devoted much time and care. The examination of a large number of cases of winter cough, Dr. Dobell says,