Abstract
THIS book represents the result of a most painstaking inquiry on the part of the author into the institutions for the treatment of consumptive patients. The various sanatoria are described with a great amount of detail, more especially with regard to situation, charges, access, &c. The actual information with regard to the details of treatment is, however, scanty. Phthisical patients differ so widely inter se that of course anything approaching a sanatorium diary, even had it been given by Dr. Walters, would only have been of general interest. Presumably the book is intended for the professional and lay reader—both these may confidently rely upon getting much information from it with regard to the possible places for treatment; but the practitioner who intends initiating a so-called open-air treatment, of which we have heard so much and seen so little, will find considerable difficulty in getting the practical information he wants from Dr. Walters' book. He will do better to consult the earlier works of Brehmer and Jaruntowsky. Those, however, who want to build a sanatorium will do well to thoroughly master Dr. Walters' book, and especially the plates which he gives of the most known sanatoria abroad.
Sanatoria for Consumptives in various Parts of the World.
By F. Rufenacht Walters With an Introduction by Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bart. Pp. 374; Illustrations 41. (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Ltd., 1899.)
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T., F. Sanatoria for Consumptives in various Parts of the World. Nature 60, 221 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060221a0
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