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the disease from friends and the comforts of home, yet, as has
been before stated, not all of\ those die, and an apparently
rash and hopeless determination of a patient, perhaps in oppo-


sition


physician and


friends, occasionally reeslts in


cure.


Besides, a considerable


margin


ought to be left for a possible


mistake


in diagnosis.


Our


first-class


diagnosticians


would


hardly require this margin, and many who do not come within


this category


winter's


experience


doubtless resent


in Florida


this insinuation.


among


invalid


But a
visitors


would convince the


most skeptical


that modern


diagnosis of


pulmonary complaints, even


professional


among those who stand high in


estimation, has not arrived at the degree of per-


fection usually accorded to it.


Then


there is a class of cases


which
here,


would


greatly


benefited


which is not considered


winter's


of sufficient gravity by


residence


many


physicians to be banished from home


those who present some


rational


symptoms


of phthisis


without


physical


signs--a


condition


unfrequently, at the present day,


con-


founded with


the effects of malaria-such cases as Dr. I.


Pollock had in mind when


phthisis,


" Here "-that


he said, in
where we


his recent lectures on


have


union of sub-


febrile symptoms with progressive waste of the body-is danger


without any physical signs."


Incipient phthisee, pneumonic


consolidation, laryngeal and pharyngeal diseases, have sought
and obtained great and prompt relief from this climate, espe-


cially


hereditary.


Many


oases


of throat-disease are,


however, sent


here


for the local affection, who have the seal


consumption already stamped on the countenance, yet who


are in ignorance


any constitutional


disease, and who


come sorely disappointed at the slow progress, and


hopeless


nature,


of the


case.


thoracic


ometimee
diseaeee,


chronic


most certainly


benefited


rarely
by


confounded


Southern


with


winter.


phthisis, is
AthAma is


benefited


, but to what extent, and in what particular localities,


I am not able to say.


It has been


claimed by invalids that a


locality back of Mellonville or Sanford, on the river, is particu-


larly efficient.


Forry states that


patient who is sauff-


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