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PHYSICAL TRAINING. 153
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of the laws of health has a direct tendency to develop consumption in those constitutions which possess any natural taint , all special
systems of pretended cure are stigmatised as useless and hopeless;—tubercles are but a symptom , and the only way in which they can be
hindered from making their appearance , or arrested in their incipient ravagesis by rigorously subjecting the daily life of the sufferer to
, every rule of health—absolute cleanliness , sufficient sleep , good food , andabove all thingsample exercise in the open air . This opinion of M .
, , Fourcault ' s is amply corroborated by that of an eminent medical manwho assured us that the real value of a warm climate to a
, consumptive patient lay in the facilities it afforded for living in the open air . In England , the patient , whose enfeebled frame feels
every atmospheric change , gives up the battle for life in disgust , and retires to two rooms , thereby weakening his general health , and
rendering himself unable to combat his particular disease . In the south everybody lives out of doors , the windows are always open ,
the most sickly person cannot help partaking of the habits of life peculiar to countries where the bed-rooms are supremely
uncomfortable , and the veranda affords a perpetual charm . For the same reason sea voyages have saved many a life . It is not being shaken
and rolled about like butter in a churn that strengthens the delicate lad sent out to sea ;—neither is it the necessary diet of shipboard ,
which can hardly be so fresh and wholesome as food on shore ; but it is the soft pure air of the ocean , in which he sits or walks from
morning till night , which blows into his cabin , and rushes resistless into every part of a ship . People on shipboard must live out of
doors , whether they -will or no . It will be seen that we lay peculiar stress on the physical agencies
which tend to bring about or to remove the two kindred diseases of consumption and scrofula ; they are the commonest scourges of
our native land , and they have been made the peculiar subjects of statistical investigation . Among the numerous interesting papers
contained in the Transactions of the Association to which we referred a few pages back , none appear to us of more significance
than one entitled ' Illustrations of the Necessity for a more Analytical study of the Statistics of Public Health , ' by E . Headlam Greenhow ,
M . D ., L . R . C . P ., Lecturer on Public Health at St . Thomas ' s Hospital . It is an endeavour at comparison between the amounts of special
disease manifested in different localities , in different occupations , and by the two sexes respectively . If worked out in all its branches
it would result in a comparative anatomy of public health . This paper is but the commencement of a great task , whose
accomplishment would reduce the chances of life and death , under given circumstances , to a matter of scientific calculation . We will extract ,
as directly pertinent to our subject , various passages from this short treatise .
" Liverpool , " says Dr . Greenhow , ' _« is the _ixnhealthiest city in the
Physical Training. 153
PHYSICAL TRAINING . 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/9/
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