Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease.

  • Gilbert, Henry.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that such employments, trades, or professions, as prevent their followers from taking moderate bodily exercise, and those which subject them to impure air, and particularly if charged with stimulating matter, all tend to induce pulmonary consumption. The individual who is unfortunately liable, by hereditary organization, to consumption, and he who is already predisposed to this malady, may,. on the contrary, by following an employment attended with moderate exercise and pure air, or air impregnated with animal matter, not unfre- quently escape a disease that, under other circum- stances, might have been inevitable. I am not aware that any class of men are so exempt from consumption as butchers. I, to the best of my recollection, have not seen a case of consumption among this trade for two years, and in London, it must be granted, its members are sufficiently numerous. The circumstance of their exemption from this malady has attracted the attention of many professional gentlemen, among whom I might name Dr. Beddoes, Dr. Withering, and Mr. Creaser. Dr. Beddoes made inquiries among the