Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation . PTION. 149 tunial perspirations, or material diminished strength. Themost unfavorable circumstances are the complaint descend-ing from tuberculous parents, and attacking both lungs,great emaciation, high degree of fever, colliquative sweats,expectoration of pure pus, diarrhoea and swelling of the ex-tremities, which symptoms may be regarded as infallibly de-noting tuberculous excavations. Such advanced cases,however, are not invariably incurable, as they have beenand are still regarded by many members of the
Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation . PTION. 149 tunial perspirations, or material diminished strength. Themost unfavorable circumstances are the complaint descend-ing from tuberculous parents, and attacking both lungs,great emaciation, high degree of fever, colliquative sweats,expectoration of pure pus, diarrhoea and swelling of the ex-tremities, which symptoms may be regarded as infallibly de-noting tuberculous excavations. Such advanced cases,however, are not invariably incurable, as they have beenand are still regarded by many members of the medical pro-fession. In confirmation of the Curability of Consumption,even in the late stages, it is impossible to appeal to a high-er authority than Laennec, the greatest patheologist of mo-dern times, while a mass of other testimony can be easilyadduced—all of which shows how inexcusable it would beto neglect curative treatment, whether by Inhalation, orotherwise. I give the preference to Inhalation and con-comitant hygienic remedies, as at once more rational 13* CHAPTER XIV. PULMONARY DISEASES HOW FAR INFLUENCED BY CLIMATE, RACE, OCCUPATION, AGE AND SEX. Climate has very little to do with the production of tu-bercular disease. It is by no means the cause of* its vari-able prevalence and intensity in different localities of theglobe. Climate is often wrongly accused, and made to an-swer for anti-hygienic causes. Wherever impure air isbreathed—wherever out-door exercise is neglected—wherever the lungs have not full play and development, andthus the due interchange between the air and the blood pre-vented—wherever all sorts of debilitating causes operate—wherever the brain is overworked or overstimulated—and wherever the heart is corroded by disquieting passions,disappointed ambition, mortified pride, hope deferred, orblighted love—there Consumption asserts its prerogativesand scatters the terrors of its sway. As to the absolute orrelative freq
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