Change of air : considered with regard to atmospheric pressure, and its electric and magnetic concomitants, in the treatment of consumption & chronic disease : with a general commentary on the most eligible localities for invalids / by J.C. Atkinson.

  • Atkinson J. C. (John Charles)
Date:
1867
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Credit: Change of air : considered with regard to atmospheric pressure, and its electric and magnetic concomitants, in the treatment of consumption & chronic disease : with a general commentary on the most eligible localities for invalids / by J.C. Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of such abscesses generally become softened, exfoliate, bringing the constitution to its lowest ebb, causing great prostration and a slow and weak pulse. The peculiarities of consumption are wholly of an opposite ten- dency, and hence the mischief of confound- ing the two, not only in adopting remedial means, but especially in recommending change of climate, since in phthisis there is an over-oxygenation of the blood. Another very important error consists in confound- ing bronchial with tubercular affections, the bronchial often continuing to old age, whilst the career of consumption is generally re- markably rapid. The suggestions here offered for the better management of convalescents in all chronic diseases, viz., those of the heart, brain, lungs, liver, and kidneys, who are trying Change of Air, or change in the density of the air, will, I trust, if carefully followed, be productive of decidedly bene- ficial effects, and assist in prolonging the lives of many suffering even under mortal maladies. The aneroid barometer, constructed with