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 invalids in England, the South of Europe, etc. ... With an appendix, containing a service of tables on climate / by James Clark.

James Clark

Date:: 1830

Credit: 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 invalids in England, the South of Europe, etc. ... With an appendix, containing a service of tables on climate / by James Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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Last autumn I took occasion to examine carefully the principal places in England frequented by invalids ; and, from the ob- servations I then made, and the informa- tion I received from authentic sources on the spot, I have been enabled to enlarge, and I hope materially improve, the account formerly given of those places. Indeed, the article on England has been wholly rewritten. To the only article on the climate of the Northern Atlantic, in the former edition, (that on Madeira,) I have, in the present, added a few observations on the principal islands in that ocean occasionally resorted to by invalids from Europe,—viz., the Canaries, the Azores, the Bahamas, and the Bermu- das ; and have also given a pretty full account of the West Indies. From these articles, I trust the members of the profession may derive some useful information, and more especially respecting the true character of the climate of the West Indies. This latter

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