A new theory of pulmonary consumption : its causes, nature, and prevention / by Francis Eagle.

  • Eagle, Francis.
Date:
1839
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Credit: A new theory of pulmonary consumption : its causes, nature, and prevention / by Francis Eagle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the use of medicine, especially of foreign pro- duction ; for, by knowing the physical circum- stances of different localities, and their operation on the human body, a change of residence could be selected where the inimical causes are absent, and the disease unsupported would cease with its cause. Thus, persons obnoxious to ague lose that disposition, and even the disease, on removing to a locality where the physical causes of ague are absent: and the same of bronchocele, the incon- tinent or exciting cause of which being the water or liquid drunk, on removing to a locality where the fluid is of an opposite character, the disease will frequently, especially in the early stage, subside of itself, as I have myself re- peatedly witnessed, and is farther corroborated by Odier, Alibert, &c. The same may be said of urinary calculi, and many other diseases. But, happily for mankind, it appears— That the same causes which produce a par- ticular condition of the animal kingdom, also determine a particular aptitude or condition of the mineral and vegetable kingdoms/' Hence, every zone, kingdom, and territory, embraces those physical advantages best for its physical wants. The Torrid zone has its peculiar physical world.