Excerpt from Hand-Book of Historical and Geographical Phthisiology: With Special Reference to the Distribution of Consumption in the United StatesDr. Bell says: It is an almost universal practice to measure the in¿uence of climate by the relation which different regions and localities hold to pulmonary con sumption, a disease which, probably more than any other, depends upon preventable conditions, intimately associated with foul soil, or density of population.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.