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A System of Physiologic Therapeutics V.4, 1901
A System of Physiologic Therapeutics V4 1901 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XIII ISLAND RESORTS OF THE PACIFIC Australasia—Australia. Tasmania. New Zealand. The Auckland Islands. Polynesia and the Tropical Islands of the Paci... more »fic—The Society Islands. The Friendly Islands. The Fiji Islands. The Sandwich Islands. The Philippine Islands. AUSTRALASIA AUSTRALIA Mention has already been made of the voyages to and from Australia and New Zealand and of their therapeutic uses (Book I, Part II, pp. 75 and 76), and a brief consideration of the climates of these islands from a medical point of view will now be given: The cases of pulmonary tuberculosis for which a longer or shorter residence in Australia can be recommended are limited. First, the prolonged sea voyage is, in many cases, a counterindica- tion. Secondly, the accommodation and arrangements for securing continuous medical supervision of patients are lacking. Patients with acute or very advanced disease cannot be advised to go to Australia, nor cases with laryngeal, intestinal, or renal complications. In fact, it is suitable only for those patients who are in the early stages, who have fairly good powers of resistance, and who are without fever or any grave complications. S. Solis Cohen, however, would add to this list some of those classes of patients for whom he advises sea voyages of moderate or considerable length; especially young persons fairly robust, and able, when well, to cope with circumstances, but who have become infected by chance and exhibit, on land, persistent limited softening or persistently recurring pyrexia. The climates of the coast towns are not suited to consumptives, and patients who desire to earn their own living in towns would find Denver and the high altitude resorts of the Rocky Mountains, in the United States of America, or the towns of the AUSTRALIA 3...« less