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. 1851 Excerpt: ... Wales, 59,025 died from consumption, being 18.2 per cent., or nearly one-fifth of the entire mortality.'" Sir James Clark, from collecting the observations of different standard authorities, estimates the ordinary duration of this disease to be from nine months to two years: that is, from the first consumptive symptom ...
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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. 1851 Excerpt: ... Wales, 59,025 died from consumption, being 18.2 per cent., or nearly one-fifth of the entire mortality.'" Sir James Clark, from collecting the observations of different standard authorities, estimates the ordinary duration of this disease to be from nine months to two years: that is, from the first consumptive symptom being observed until the disease ends fatally--all its different stages are passed through in this short period. We also find in The First Medical Report of the Brompton Hospital for Consumption the following Table of 215 fatal cases: --Thus, there occurred within one year 89 deaths; within 18 months 123; and within 30 months as many as 168 out of 215; leaving alive at that period the small number of 47. In the midst of such calamitous results a cheering gleam of hope broke forth, when, during the endeavours of different medical observers to ascertain the cause of death in various diseases, it was found that consumptive disease had existed where it had not been suspected, and that nature had been busily occupied in making efforts towards a cure, and this, too, under unfavourable circumstances. These observations, though few in number, being well authenticated, established the fact, that consumption was not always fatal; and further experience has fully proved that persons coming, for various periods of time, to such a climate as Madeira in the early, or occasionally in the advanced stages of the disease, have their complaints arrested, where they have the prudence to conjoin proper regimen and treatment with the effects of climate. In all stages the most distressing symptoms are, almost invariably, so much ameliorated as to cause comparatively little inconvenience, and where this relief does not occur the case is an exception to the gener...
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