38 A HANDBOOK FOR SOUTHPORT. 



incidents attendant upon a change of residence, all have a 

 powerful effect upon the weakened frame. And when the 

 locality chosen is appropriate to the particular ailment under 

 which the patient actually labours, or with which he is 

 threatened, and especially when the measure has been taken 

 in an early stage of the complaint, the result is often of the 

 most valuable kind, and justifies all that has been said by 

 those who place change of air among the foremost of our 

 remedial agents. 



The maladies which change of climate is most likely to 

 help to alleviate are chronic bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, 

 strumous diseases, consumption, chronic rheumatism, chronic 

 dyspepsia, ulceration of the fauces, clergyman's sore throat, 

 some forms of paralysis, and nervous depression after long 

 illness; and to these complaints the climate of Southport 

 is especially adapted. The advantages of a prolonged 

 residence on this part of the coast, in connection with the 

 more immediate treatment of symptoms, are such as arise 

 from its marine position, and from the constant operation of 

 its peculiar local climate. 



The most direct and certain remedy for many chronic 

 sufferers, is the habitual breathing of an air containing a 

 maximum amount of oxygen. The proportion of the con- 

 stituents of atmospheric air remain nearly the same on the 

 highest mountain as in the deepest vale, the principal dif- 

 ference being the amount of carbonic acid mixed with it in 

 different localities. 



Owing to the pressure of the superincumbent atmosphere, 

 air increases in density the nearer we approach the level of 

 the sea, and it is evident that we inhale at every breath a 



