Meteorological observations on the Maloja plateau, Upper Engadine, Switzerland, 6,000 feet above the sea / by A. Tucker Wise.
- Alfred Thomas Tucker Wise
- Date:
- [1884]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Meteorological observations on the Maloja plateau, Upper Engadine, Switzerland, 6,000 feet above the sea / by A. Tucker Wise. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![ON THE MALOJA PLATEAU, UPPER ENGADINE 6,000 FEET ABOVE THE BY A. TUCKER WISE, M.D., F.R.Met From the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Yol. X. No. 52. October 1884.] The increasing attention given to Alpine climate, as an adjunct in the treat- ment of some important diseases, renders a study of these cold climates, and the peculiar meteorological conditions experienced in the mountains, of much interest. We are indebted to Dr. Hermann Weber for the first paper in England, just twenty years ago, on the value of a winter residence in the Alps for several forms of ill-health, especially scrofulous and pulmonary complaints. His statements and views met with but little consideration or attention at this time. Some “ authorities ” even treated him rather roughly for this “ quasi- sensational and unreasonable practice.” Twenty-four years before this, however, Dr. Bodington, of Warwickshire, recommended “ dry frosty air ” for pulmonary consumption. He was also roughly handled by the reviewers, and on that account never pursued the subject. Within the last seven years Alpine winter residence has been brought more prominently before the public and the medical profession, chiefly by Drs. Theodore Williams, Symes Thompson, and Clifford Allbutt; but nearly all interest has been concentrated on one village of the Grisons,—Davos Platz](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22454810_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
