A winter in the West Indies and Florida : containing general observations upon modes of travelling, manners and customs, climates and productions, with a particular description of St. Croix, Trinidad de Cuba, Havana, Key West, and St. Augustine, as places of resort for northern invalids / by an invalid.

Date:
1839
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Credit: A winter in the West Indies and Florida : containing general observations upon modes of travelling, manners and customs, climates and productions, with a particular description of St. Croix, Trinidad de Cuba, Havana, Key West, and St. Augustine, as places of resort for northern invalids / by an invalid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PREFACE, The great and constantly increasing number of pulmonary complaints in the United States, is happily beginning to excite the attention which the importance of the subject demands. The bills of mortality abundantly prove, that about one-fourth of the deaths in these States is caused by diseases of the lungs, in one shape or other, and the fairest and the best of the youth of our land are every day cut down around us, in the full flush of youthful hopes and ardent antici- pations y discouraged by the almost equally unsuccessful application of patent quack-nos- trums and scientific medical skill, the friends and relatives of these unfortunate victims of premature decline,, have generally abandoned all hope of relief from the earliest appearance of this terrible disease ; and, in many cases, they have been left to pine away by its slow and sure operation, with the consoling reflection that they were past all hope, and had nothing to