This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... VillaFranca, Malta, Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Bermudas, Bahamas, Undercliff, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Egypt, Nice, Mexico, Algiers, have essentially dry soils, and, though some have great rains, the atmospherical surroundings of the patient become rapidly dry, even after rain. Others, such as Pisa, Naples, Milan, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... VillaFranca, Malta, Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Bermudas, Bahamas, Undercliff, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Egypt, Nice, Mexico, Algiers, have essentially dry soils, and, though some have great rains, the atmospherical surroundings of the patient become rapidly dry, even after rain. Others, such as Pisa, Naples, Milan, Parma, Mantua, Verona, Exmouth, Sidmouth, all said to be prejudicial to consumptives, have essentially moist soils. Notwithstanding all this, Miihry, one of the ablest of European writers, doubts the influences of moisture; but he has no facts, strictly speaking, bearing upon our precise question. Boudin, f also, an equally great writer on this subject, still holds to the opinion that moist, intermittent fever countries prevent phthisis. Dr. Lombard, of Geneva, claims nothing for dryness as a preventive. But he and Miihry both assert that, at a certain height in the Swiss mountains (Miihry states the same of the whole globe), consumption is unknown. They attribute the fact to the rarefied air. I would claim much for the dryness, which necessarily accompanies the height. Klimatologische Unstersuchungen, &c. A. Mtlhry. Leipsic and Heidelberg. 1858. t Traite de Geographie et de Statistiques Medicales, &c. Par I. Ch. M. Boudin. Paris: Baillere. 1856. % Les Climats des Montagnes, &c. H. C. Lombard, Geneva and Paris. Joel Cherbuliez. 1858. The sum total of our investigations into European works is, that, while no writer attaches the same value to moisture of the soil, that I have been compelled to do, from my examination of New England, the fact that so large a proportion of places, famed for giving relief to consumptives, have dry soils, is, to use the mildest term, a peculiar coincidence. I do not think, moreover, that the subject has ..
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