Page:Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, volume 4.djvu/258

 156 of this very intelligent and interesting class of men as it might be in my power to give, a system of hygienic discipline, which, if adopted, might tend, at least, to mitigate, if not effectually to lessen, the frightful suffering and premature decay of which they are the victims.

In conclusion, I contemplated entering upon the examination of the influence of the peculiar climate of the Landsend, on health and disease generally; and, particularly, of its advantages and disadvantages as a winter residence for persons predisposed to, or labouring under, phthisis and other diseases of the chest.

The following pages must be considered as a very rude and imperfect outline of only a part of the plan now sketched out. It is unnecessary to trouble the reader with the reasons why it is presented to him in so unfinished a form: I may, however, be allowed to state that they are of such a nature as at once to justify me in committing my paper to the press in its present shape, and in soliciting the reader's candid and kind consideration of it.