Health resorts for tropical invalids in India, at home, and abroad / by W.J. Moore.

Date:
1881
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Credit: Health resorts for tropical invalids in India, at home, and abroad / by W.J. Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    VALUE OF INDIAN HILL RANGES. scarcely admit of much attention to those more subtle variations, to be considered with regard to the more changeable European climates. Thus the value of Indian hill ranges is limited to those conditions, in which simply a cooler atmosphere may be expected to be beneficial. When there is specific disease, as of the liver, or bowels, or spleen, contracted in the tropics, a more radical change is necessary than to a tropical mountain climate. When there is tendency to such specific diseases, or to chest affection, and a more radi- cal change cannot be taken, mira-tropical stations are preferable, although not always advisable. But when the ailment is simply debility from heat, or from con- tinued work, or convalescence from some malady which has merely left debility as a result, or when the com- plaints are of lassitude, loss of appetite, exhaustion after little exertion, and loss of energy and inclination for the daily occupation, any hill climate almost at any time will prove beneficial. By such change the spirits are exhilarated, the appetite and digestion are improved, the vital powers are stimulated, and the physical vigour is regained. Residence in the hills may moreover be regarded not only as exciting a sanitary effect on the body, but also on the mind; the freedom from the harass of daily w'ork, and the change of scene and society, tending to raise and exhilarate the spirits, depressed by the continued influence of the heated plains. Here a few words are ventured as protest against writers who have portrayed the climate of India as not inimical to Europeans generally, and as even favourable to European children, and who have even advised life assurance at European rates. Without reference to those tropical epidemic diseases which so often ‘ strew