The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden.

  • Madden, Thomas More, 1838-1902.
Date:
1876
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Credit: The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    or the Andine valleys of Peru are unquestionably better situated than any of the health resorts of the Mediterranean. On the other hand, it must he borne in view that the height of a locality above the sea-level not only affects its temperature, which falls 1° for every 400 feet of altitude, but also, and still more directly, influences the pressure of the atmosphere, which at sea-level amounts to nearly fifteen pounds on every square inch of the surface of the body, and rapidly diminishes as we ascend above this; and that the lessened atmospheric pressure of mountain health resorts must necessarily affect the balance of the circulation, giving rise to congestions or haemorrhages, and would appear to be especially contraindicated in cases of consumption, already predisposed to haemoptysis.