Climate, considered especially in relation to man / by Robert DeCourcy Ward.

  • Robert DeCourcy Ward
Date:
[1908], [©1908]
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Credit: Climate, considered especially in relation to man / by Robert DeCourcy Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by more suicides, and so on. Bertillon has collected data on suicides and seasons in France, and Leffing- well has investigated illegitimacy and the influence of seasons on conduct in Great Britain. The difference in the effects of a bright, crisp day, ^^ hen work is well and quickly done, and of a dull, depressing, and enervating day is well known. A dis- mal day is a dies mail. Strong cyclonic winds, blow- ing polewards from lower latitudes, are characteristic of the temperate zones, and are proverbially disagree- able and irritating, in strong contrast with the cooler winds from higher latitudes. The sirocco in Italy; the solano in Spain; the norte in Argentina, for ex- ample, are such winds. The sirocco has been described as not fatal to human life, but deadly to human temper. In Spain there is a proverb, Ask no favour during the solano. The nervous effects of the dry foehn and chinook are well known. The zonda of the Argentine is reported as not infrequently making people temporarily insane, and leading to suicide. ]Many other mental effects of the weather might be noted. Climate, Weather, and Military Operations, His- torical consequences of great importance have fol- lowed from special conditions of climate or weather. ]\Iaguire's Outlines of Military Geography (Cam- bridge, 1899) contains a chapter on the influence of climate on military operations, but this subject has hitherto received little attention. 3Iore recently, Bentley, in a presidential address before the Roj^al