The climate of the island of Madeira, or the errors & misrepresentations on this subject contained in a recent work on climate by T.H. Burgess, M.D. : considered in a letter addressed to George Lund, M.D. / by James Mackenzie Bloxam.

  • Bloxam, James Mackenzie.
Date:
1855
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Credit: The climate of the island of Madeira, or the errors & misrepresentations on this subject contained in a recent work on climate by T.H. Burgess, M.D. : considered in a letter addressed to George Lund, M.D. / by James Mackenzie Bloxam. 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 CLIMATE OF MADEIRA. {The reader's attention is directed to the note at the foot of paffe 4.] Funclial, Madeira, 1st June, 1855, Deak Dr. Lund, By way of preface to this, my second letter on the same subject, it may be as well to state that my former letter was printed for private circulation, though it was afterwards published ; and that, the first impression bemg nearly disposed of, I take the opportunity thus afibrded me to reconsider the subject, and to write this letter as a substitute for the former one. The object of my former letter, at its commencement, was to discuss the uses, and more especially the abuses of meteorological science, as applied to the practical question of the sanative effects of climate ; and I turned to a semi- popular work on climate, written by an English physi- cian,* for the purpose of illustrating my views. In the progress of my task, I discovered that the work in ques- tion had far more than ordinary pretensions; that the author had undertaken to correct the misapprehensions, * Climate of Italy in relation to Pulmonary Consumption, with Remarks on the Influence of Foreign Climates upon Invalids. By T. n. Burgess, M.D., etc. London: 1852. B