From its aspect and open situation Exmouth presents no great objections as a residence, at any season of the year. It will be found particularly serviceable as a resort for weakly children, and those of a scrofulous constitution, and where change is required in the debility consequent upon attacks of fever, or during convalescence after other diseases: no place upon the coast could be better chosen for these purposes. I should also strongly recommend it in irritable indigestions, catarrhal affections, and more especially in the dry asthma, which experience has often shown to be greatly benefited by it. Its exposed situation, I cannot but think, renders it injurious in the severer affections of the chest, and particularly in cases where there is a tendency to hæmorrhage or inflammation of the lungs, as also where consumption has been fully developed. To rheumatic complaints it appears particularly inapplicable - those liable to such affections invariably suffer. Female derangements are benefited by a residence in the higher part of the town, but in the lower there is too great a tendency to produce relaxation.

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