A History of Madeira: With a Series of Twenty-Seven Coloured Engravings, Illustrative of the Costumes, Manners, and Occupations of the Inhabitants of That Island
A History of Madeira: With a Series of Twenty-Seven Coloured Engravings, Illustrative of the Costumes, Manners, and Occupations of the Inhabitants of That Island
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. 1821 Excerpt: ...suppuration has taken place, it is still in a slight degree, and the lungs have suffered little derangement in their structure and functions. It is then, and then only, a change of climate will be truly beneficial. Besides, the advantage of the voyage itself can only be reaped by those who are able to bear its ...
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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. 1821 Excerpt: ...suppuration has taken place, it is still in a slight degree, and the lungs have suffered little derangement in their structure and functions. It is then, and then only, a change of climate will be truly beneficial. Besides, the advantage of the voyage itself can only be reaped by those who are able to bear its inconveniencies, and not by the worn-out victim of suffering, sinking under the last symptoms of emaciation and debility. Though winter in Great Britain is carefully to be avoided by the consumptive, summer is by no means unfavourable to the complaint. The proper period, therefore, of such patients departing from their native shore is the month of _ October, and under all circumstances in Madeira, the fittest season for invalids is from November to the beginning of June. This was, also, the opinion of the late Doctor Cullen, who, in his lectures on this disease, was used to observe, in directing a change of climate, that it was as pernicious for phthisical patients to pass the summer in a very warm climate, such as Madeira, as to remain in England in winter; and, indeed, that the most benign climate in such cases was found in the south of England, and in the winter of southern It may not here be improper_ to mention, that the most comfortable accommodations may be obtained at Funchal that house-rent is very moderate, as there are no taxes or poor's rates; and that not only the necessaries of life, but even its luxuries, would be considered as reasonable by the British visitor. Of medical assistance there is no deficiency. So late as the "' See Observations on the_Histor_1/, Climate, and Diseases qf Madeira, by Dr. Gourlay, physician to the British Factory in that island. 52 FUNCHAL. year 1819, ytherewere fouiznative Portuguese physici...
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