On phthisis and the supposed influence of climate : being an analysis of statistics of consumpton in this part of Australia : with remarks on the cause of the increase of that disease in Melbourne / by William Thomson.

Date:
1879
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Credit: On phthisis and the supposed influence of climate : being an analysis of statistics of consumpton in this part of Australia : with remarks on the cause of the increase of that disease in Melbourne / by William Thomson. 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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    was, yet was not pioneer. Called to other duty, both colleagues left their coadjutor alone to fulfil the original intention. And if he regretted that so good an argument lighted on so poor an author—like Rosalind, not a good epilogue, he has done at least negative good by inciting abler writers to illustrate a subject abandoned apparently in despair by the Medical Society, and by the Central Board of Health wholly left un- touched. In 1870, the author gave the result of those investigations. In the following pages will be found evidence sufficient to show that in the time that has since elapsed there have accumulated materials the systematic collection and arrangement of which would be of value; if, indeed, they do not go far to confirm the truth of the primary proposition, that climate exerts no influence whatever over specific or contagious disease. Those who would rather not mix practical writings with speculative subtlety, and who do not care to have topics not very agreeable