An Index of Diseases; Their Symptoms and Treatment

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... air being soft and sedative, and the weather brilliant and snnny. A few miles inland the ground rises, and the air is more dry and bracing. In cases of consumption with copious expectoration, and in the chronic bronchitis of old people, Adelaide, the chief city of South Australia, may be chosen as a residence. The air is dry, warm, and tonic; the winter temperature averaging 53 . The invalid leaving England for Australia will generally find the long uninterrupted voyage round the Cape of Good itope, in a comfortable ship, much to be preferred to the more exciting and fatiguing overland route, by way of Suez and Galle. The best time for leaving this country is from the middle of October to the end of November; when the new home will be reached in about 90 days from Liverpool. Thus supposing the traveller to arrive about the end of January, he will find a pale-blue cloudless sky, and the thermometer at 90 in the middle of the day without any unpleasant sense of heat. With a feeling of new life, general exhilaration, and a good appetite, he will experience a desire to be at work. The difficulty seems to be to persuade the phthisical that they are not cured; and that the general rules of hygiene must be adopted, and all excesses avoided, to prevent the pulmonary mischief again starting into activity, or to escape hepatic congestion, or that he may obtain and retain health and vigor. Tasmania.--The island (known as Van Diemen's Land, until the abandoument of transportation in 1852) is separated from the southerumost point of Australia by Bass's Strait. The chief towns are Hobarl Town in the south, and Launceston in the north; the climate of both being salubrious and delightful, and highly conducive to longevity. The latter port is reached in twe...