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

  • Gilbert, Henry.
Date:
1842
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    butchers in Bristol, of whom there were then about five hundred, and he could scarcely find an instance of consumption having occurred among them. Mr. Thackrah says, Consumption is remark- ably rare among the men employed in the slaugh- ter-house. If we see a phthisical youth in the fraternity, we shall generally find that his parents, aware of an hereditary predisposition to consump- tion, brought him up to the business with the hope of averting this formidable malady.* Tanners and tallow-chandlers are also peculiarly exempt from phthisis. Although it may be diffi- cult to account for this fact, nevertheless it is indisputable. PART VI. INFLUENCE OF SEX ON PULMONARY PHTHISIS. An opinion has very generally prevailed, that consumption is more prevalent among females than among males ; an impression, I have no doubt, correct, although not to the extent sup- posed. I have very little doubt that the pro- * Op. Cit., p. 0.