CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7] — Page 318

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undoubtedly atmospheries

The remarkable exemption Europians enjoy from Phthisis

Hongkong,

Pahmonalis in

and indeed in China generally

cannot fail to strike all Medical Men, and there seems little dowlt that even imported. cases are much longer in proving futal than in Great Britaire. It.

love become a

a

may there. question for

serious consideration how far this climate might prove of essential benefit to those thousands of consumptive patients who, if they remain

at home, must assuredly sink rapidly into early graves-

The

sume idea has occurred to me in former years,

but I have been reluctant to bring the subject before the notice of the public _ Experience since my return to this Country has however

far confirmed my

er so

original views that

views that Sconsider

it a duty to do

There is a

So

now

class of diseases however to which the Residents

appear to be peculiarly liable- I refer to affections of the prostrate gland, and the kidneys - the latter in the form of Brights