Excerpt from Hand-Book of Historical and Geographical Phthisiology: With Special Reference to the Distribution of Consumption in the United States

In the following volume I have attempted to present a sketch of the development of our knowledge of pulmonary consumption from the time of Hippocrates up to the present day, together with the ascertained facts regarding the geographical distribution of that affection. It has also been my effort so to arrange the statistics in regard to the geographical distribution of consumption in the United States as to make them available for convenient reference in selecting localities of resort or residence for invalids, and also for those who are in health.

Dr. Bell says: "It is an almost universal practice to measure the influence of climate by the relation which different regions and localities hold to pulmonary consumption, a disease which, probably more than any other, depends upon preventable conditions, intimately associated with foul soil, or density of population."

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