Bridge of Allan and its resources / by Wm. Gordon.

  • Gordon, William (Consultant)
Date:
1860
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Credit: Bridge of Allan and its resources / by Wm. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and other patients, who are induced by this misconceived opinion to leave, would be much safer to remain here than spending, as they generally do, the summer, and part of autumn, at some marine residence, which, with its vicissi¬ tudes of temperature, not only supplants the benefit gained in this climate, but exasperates the complaints. In attesta¬ tion of this fact, we have frequent and strikiug examples every year. Its Sheltered Position.—The almost perfect immunity from the north and east winds, at all seasons, is sufficient in itself to recommend Bridge of Allan to those suffering from complaints that cannot withstand the injurious effects of such agents, from which invalids are ever anxious to seek shelter; and no where can it be found, with more safety, than at this highly favoured locality. It must be admitted, that safe protection from such health-disturbing blasts, aids Nature, and her colleague the physician, very mate¬ rially in controlling disease, arid promoting recovery, that might otherwise frustrate their combined influence ; and it also enables the patient to dispense with confinement in over heated rooms, and extra happing, rendered so neces¬ sary under converse circumstances, which are not only debilitating and oppressive to the weakened frame, but unhealthy and unsafe, because of their over-relaxing ten¬ dency and proneness to excite undue perspiration, and enervation ; they predispose on the least exposure to re¬ lapses, or it may be, fresh attacks. Thus it is, that this watering place continues much prized in the spring and winter by invalids, whose residence in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other places, exposes them to those frequent causes of