of our wide
circulation as will give repining invalids to understand, that the
advantages of a foreign climate are closely limited by one portion of
the profession, and considered by another portion as highly
problematical, if not entirely visionary. This applies, however,
mainly to consumption; for the advantages of the climatic change are
seldom denied in dyspepsy, rheumatism, scrofula, and the tribe of
nervous diseases. Even in these, however, the locality chosen is
rarely a proper one. There are countries which, if they could only
obtain the stamp of fashion, would be invaluable to the invalid. 'The
climate of Norway, for example,' says Dr Burgess, 'is admirably
suited, during several months of the year, between the middle of May
and the middle of September, for certain forms of dyspepsy, lesions of
the nervous system affecting the mind, or that form of general
innervation which results from an overwrought brain, and diseases of
repletion. But Norway is little frequented, because it is not
fashionable, although it would be difficult to point out a more
appropriate occasional residence for the numerous class of invalids
just mentioned, than Christiania, with its picturesque environs,
sublime scenery, and clear and rarefied atmosphere.'

The non-professional predilection in favour of a warm climate for
consumption, may be referred, we suspect, to the analogy that exists
between the earlier stages of that disease and those of a common cold.
In fact, in most cases in this country, consumption is for a long time
styled a cold; then it becomes a bad cold; then a worse; till it is
impossible to withhold from it the more formidable name. A cold,
however, it should be considered, occurs as frequently in summer as in
winter; and in neither is it owing to the temperature, whether high or
low, but to the _atmospheric changes_. The warmer the weather is, the
greater will be the morbific effect of a cold draught of air. That a
warm climate _in itself_ is neither prevention nor cure in
consumption, may be inferred from the prevalence of the complaint in
all latitudes. In India and in Africa it is as rife as in any part of
Europe. By the Army Reports from Malta, we find that upwards of 30 per
cent. of the whole number of deaths throughout the year is caused by
phthisis. In Madeira, according to Dr Heineken, Dr Gourlay, and Dr
Mason, no disease is more common among the natives than pulmonary
consumption. At Nice, it is stated by Dr