Observations on pulmonary consumption, and on the utility of the climate of Madeira for phthisical patients, addressed to a physician in London / by Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
Date:
[1801?]
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Credit: Observations on pulmonary consumption, and on the utility of the climate of Madeira for phthisical patients, addressed to a physician in London / by Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    certainty promlfe a cure.-^Where the luilgs are ulcerated from other caufes, it remains for you to determine, whether there are powers remaining in the conftitution to efFe6l a cure if the patient is placed in the moft favour- able circumftances; for though we fee many recover from a fituation which invariably proves fatal during the winter in England, yet we have alfo inftances in which an emaci^ ated carcafe has been furreridered to the waves during the voyage, or arrived only early enough to be decently ihterred; In an earlier period of the difeafe there can be no fituation in the world fo well calculated for the refioration of difeafed lungs^ as the ifland of Madeira. The valley of f^unchall is defended by im- menfe hills from every wind but the fouth, where it is open to the fea breeze; this pre- ferves a temperature fo even, as is unknown in any other part of the world. Our winters may be compared to your fummers in ever^ thing but the length of days, and thofe fud- den changes from heat to cold to which you are fubjeft. The thermometer with us is often fteady within doors, or varies fcarcely a B decree