The Influence of Climate in the Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases, More Particularly of the Chest and Digestive Organs: Comprising an Account of the Principal Places Resorted to by Invalids in England, the South of Europe, &c. : a Comparative Estimate of Their Merits in Particular Diseases, and General Directions for Invalids While Travelling and Residing Abroad : with an Appendix, Containing a Series of Tables on ClimateJohn Murray, 1830 - 400 頁 |
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第 31 頁 - In one spot, about halfway along the lake, — which is about two miles and a half in length, and from a quarter to half a mile in breadth, — the...
第 150 頁 - ... to produce relapses. Another cause of this disease is improper diet. An idea prevails that full living and a liberal allowance of wine are necessary to preserve health in situations subject to malaria. This is an erroneous opinion, and I have known many persons suffer in Italy from acting on it.
第 219 頁 - often endeavoured to measure the power of the sun between the tropics, by two thermometers of mercury perfectly equal, one of which remained exposed to the sun, while the other was placed in the shade. The difference resulting from the absorption of the rays in the ball of the instrument never exceeded 3°-7 (6°-6 Fahr.); sometimes it did not even rise higher than one or two degrees.
第 342 頁 - ... his own country, and doomed shortly to add another name to the long and melancholy list of his countrymen who have sought, with pain and suffering, a distant country, only to find in it a grave. When the patient is a female, the objections to a journey apply with increased force.
第 33 頁 - ... should have been so long overlooked in a country like this, whose inhabitants during the last century have been traversing half the globe in search of climate.
第 xxv 頁 - ... are yet deeply interested in the subject of climate, in relation to its effects on disease, I have endeavoured to express myself in as plain language as possible ; and I trust I have succeeded in making myself intelligible to the generality of readers, without at all diminishing the utility of the book to the members of my own profession. It has been my wish to lay before the public such a work as might serve at once as a manual to the physician in selecting a proper climate for his patient,...
第 103 頁 - Calmness, moderate cold, bright sunshine of considerable power, a dry state of atmosphere and of the soil, the rains of short duration. Against these must be placed, — changeableness, the fine weather being as shortlived as the bad, rapid variations of temperature, within moderate limits. In autumn and spring there are heavy rains.
第 50 頁 - This protection from winds extends over a very considerable tract of beautiful country, abounding in every variety of landscape, so that there is scarcely a wind that blows from which the invalid will not be able to find a shelter for exercise either on foot or horseback.
第 154 頁 - Humid, confined situations, subject to great alternations of temperature between day and night, are the most dangerous. Of all the physical qualities of the air, humidity is the most injurious to human life; and, therefore, in selecting situations for building, particular regard should be had to the circumstances which are calculated to obviate humidity either in the soil or atmosphere, in every climate. Dryness, with a free circulation of air, and a full exposure to the sun, are the material things...