Acireale considered as a climatic station and a bathing town / by Arnaldo Cantani ; translated by Alfred Cumberworth.

  • Cantani, Arnaldo, 1837-1893.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Acireale considered as a climatic station and a bathing town / by Arnaldo Cantani ; translated by Alfred Cumberworth. 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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    me by every physician in those places, and the rainy days in a whole year, amount only to 104, the serene ones being 221 , and the rainy 40, according to Ughetti (1). The exposure of Acireale like that of Catania is very sunny; be cause being open on the East and on the South it receives the sumbeams from those parts, and even on the west, Etna is too di- stant to cover it too soon with its shade. As to the prevalent winds , Acireale is like Catania one of the winter stations most favoured by nature. Whilst Mentone , Nice, Cannes, Pisa and Venice suffer more or less from Northern winds, Catania and Acireale are almost sheltered from them. Of course there are winds during the winter months, but almost never blo- wing from the north, only in a few exceptional years, as in 1867, but no longer since that time , predominated the NO winds, but the north winds never blew from which Acireale as well as Ca- tania are sheltered. The prevalent winds are those of SE, SO, SSE, ESE, windy days are however more scarse than in all the other winter stations; the most Avindy month is March. The air of Acireale is rich in ozone, and that is easily accoun ted for by the adjacent sea and a luxuriant vegetation. Unfortunately are wanting in Acireale, as in every climatic sta- tion quite southern, large forests of coniferous trees which are so attractive to invalid foreigners, not only because they contribute to the dryness of the soil, enabling sick persons to pass a whole day under their shade, even when the sun darts its Avarm beams, but especially because the resinous turpentine exhalations of those providential trees which nature plentifully soAved on CA^ery coun- tinent, and destroyed by man's ignorance in so many countries (to his great damage both hygienic and economical) considerably increase the production of ozone at the contact of the solar beams, and consequently purify the air better than any other mea ns, and render it more active, because the vapours of turpentine inhaled at the same time with the purest air of the forest, effectuate a lii- ghly beneficial direct action on the catarrhal affections of the brea- thing organs, and soothe the nervous system extremely sensib and so often excited of sick persons. If however large forests of coniferous trees are Avanting , something has been done at Ace- reale: in the garden of the sanitary establishment there are many clusters of coniferous and eucalyptus trees under the shade of Avhicli one can sit, and breathe their balsamic emanations, and it is noAV positive that the number of these beneficial plants Avill yearly in- crease , the conviction of their importance having penetrated tlie U) Doctor G. B. Ughetti, the climate of Catania. Contributor to the me- dical clima tology of Sicily. Palermo 1879.
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