Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-06-10
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Effect of Climate.

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For many years past, the favori,e remedy
OF physicians, in all stages of consumption,
has been 10 recommend sea voyage, and a
sojourn in a warmer climate. The medica,
professors in England and France, have usu-
ally recommended the island of Madeira as
the best place of resort for the consurnptive
invalid; while those Of our own country have
suggested to their patients either Florida and
Cubn, as points of winter residence best
adapted TO alleviate the condition of suffer-
ers. Statistics, recently collected, appear to
contradict the advantages which were ut one
time supposed to be derived from migration
10 warmer climate, and to indicate that an
atmosphere cool and dry is in every respect
preferable. r-
Ii is now contended that tubercuIous phlhi-
sic is species of scrofnla, and that the pro-
cess of putrifaclion which the deceased lung
undergoes, is has,ered in the moister atmos-
phere of a warm climate, and that the disease
is consequently more prevalent at the South
than at the North.
All bronchial affections are increased by
the damp air Of the sea. shore, and the statls-
TICS OF the United States army show that the
number of deaths from consumption are
more than double, in such situations, 10 what
they are farther inland. The statistics Of
the British army, also, show similar results
Not more than half as many soldiers are at
tackled with consumption in Canada as in
the West Indies; and this is now becoming
SO well understood, that men, invalided with
this disease are sent from the West Indies to
Canada, as offering the best chance of their
recovery.
In London, two hundred and tliir,y-six
persons out ofn thousand die of consumption
annually; in Sweden, Northern climate,
only sixty-six. In Russin, consumr,ive ca
ses are equally rare, while in those Southern
climates which have been considered the
most beneficial to this peculiar class of inva>
lids, deaths 10y consumption form the most
prominent feature in the bills of mortality.
In Italy the disease is as prevalent as in
France; and in Madeira, where patients are
SO frequently sent for The benefit of their de-
cliniDg health, there is no dlseuse more fire.
quent among the natives of the island.
1t is now pretty generally conceded that
the number OF those who are benefited by a
Southern sojourn, would have been equally
benefited by remedial agents at home and
that The chances are much more in favor oI
those who travel North for health, than Of
those who seek recovery iD The South.
The dry air of IN island or mountain re
eion, is also admitted to he preferable 10 the
moist cool air of the sea coast, or of valleys
rendered damp by flowing streams. The
subject is one of great interest to all, and any
facts that arc elciled in relation it, must nee.
essarily he worthy of consideration. Con-
sumption has hitherto been considered as in
curable. There are those who reproach the
skill of physician. that il is SO. There are
even some who believe it possible 10 afford
permanent relief, in all bur extreme cases -
but they have hitherto been looked upon as
empirics. Specific remedies, one after an
other, have been recommended and tried,
sometimes with partial, b"r rarely with com
plete success. 1t is 10 be hoped, from the
rapid advance of scientific knowledge, that
some course of lreatmen, may be discovered
more certain in its beneficial results than
any which have as yet been adopted.