Sure Methods of Improving Health, and Prolonging Life; Or, a Treatise on the Art of Living Long and Comfortably, by Regulating the Diet and Regimen. by a Physician [T.J. Graham]. by Thomas John Graham (Paperback / softback, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ...few remarks on the propriety of the patient's removal to a foreign climate, because I think it my duty to oppose this practice at every possible opportunity, from being perfectly convinced of its inefficiency and danger. In the earlier stages, it is unnecessary, because we have in our own country a spot which offers at least equal, and every thing considered perhaps superior, advantages; and it is inefficient, since change of climate will t be attended with much benefit without constant exercise. In the latter periods, it is dangerous, as experience has fully proved that, under such a change, this disease then runs a more rapid, and a more certainly fatal course, than if the patient had remained in England. This is, in short, the sum of medical experience on the subject; and I have doubt that a great majority of the most able physicians in this kingdom, will, on due consideration, fully agree in the truth of this statement. It is a most mistaken tion to suppose, that the inhabitants of Madeira, Italy, the south of France, or Lisbon, are nearly exempt I cant consistently enlarge here on this subject, but my readers should kw, that the physicians of Italy and Franco ackwledge, that in a hundred deaths among the native inhabitants, there are twenty-five, at the least, by pulmonary consumption; and that all the English physicians who have long practised in Madeira or Lisbon, dissuade us frcm sending.patients thithsr. In respect to the propriety of sending consumptive patieuts to Madeira, I would state a fact recorded by Dr. Renton, t physician who resided there. He says, that of forty-seven of such patients sent to that island, thirty-two died within six months after their arrival; six died on a second winter's trial of the climate; six...