The Influence of Climate in the Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine)
Cambridge University Press, 10/15/2013
EAN 9781108062312, ISBN10: 1108062318
Paperback, 360 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Published in 1829, this important work raised awareness of a poorly understood topic, running to a third edition by 1841. Sir James Clark (1788–1870) had trained as a surgeon in Edinburgh and gained experience in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. During subsequent European travels, he studied the effects of climate on disease, particularly tuberculosis, and this publication represents an expanded version of his Medical Notes on Climate, Diseases, Hospitals, and Medical Schools in France, Italy, and Switzerland (1820), which is also reissued in this series. A licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians from 1826, and elected to the Royal Society in 1832, Clark became a trusted physician and friend to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection are his Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption (1835) and Memoir of John Conolly (1869).
Preface
1. On climate
2. England
3. France
4. Nice
5. Italy
6. Of a summer residence
7. Madeira
8. On the diseases benefited by climate
9. Disorders of the digestive organs
10. Consumption
11. Diseases of the larynx, trachea, and bronchia
12. Asthma
13. Gout
14. Chronic rheumatism
15. General delicacy of constitution in childhood and youth
16. Premature decay at a more advanced period of life
17. Disordered health from hot climates
Appendix
Notes to tables of climate.