HASTINGS

CONSIDERED AS

A RESORT FOR INVALIDS.

Aër nimirum purus et bonus, quo nihil ad vitam retinendam, et sanitatem conservandam, magis necessarium est, nec quicquam ad multos morbos sanandos utilius; scilicet sine quo medicamenta alio quin optima et efficacissima parum omnino volent, et morbi, natura leves et facile sanabiles, maligni prorsus et sæpe insanabiles fiunt.

Conspect. Theor. Medicinæ, Jacobi Gregorii.

CONSIDERED AS

A RESORT FOR INVALIDS.

WITH TABLES, ILLUSTRATIVE OF

ITS TEMPERATURE, SALUBRITY, AND THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF
THE CLIMATE, SHOWING ITS SUITABILITY IN PULMONARY
AND OTHER DISEASES.

ALSO, DIRECTIONS FOR THE CHOICE OF A RESIDENCE, AND HINTS
AS TO DIET, REGIMEN, BATHING, &c.

BY JAMES MACKNESS, M. D.

PHYSICIAN TO THE HASTINGS DISPENSARY.

PRINTED BY C. ADLARD, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.

PREFACE.

In the great number of patients who came under my observation as Physician to the Hastings Dispensary, my attention was directed to the fact of the comparative unfrequency of some of the most fatal of those diseases, which in most other places are especially prevalent amongst the poorer classes of our population; in order more fully to ascertain how far my observations were correct, I classified the whole of the Cases which had occurred in the practice of this Institution during the twelve years it had been established; and more fully to verify the facts I had collected from this source, I had recourse to the Registrar's book of deaths for the four years, during which