Health, disease and remedy familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood / [George Moore].

  • George Moore
Date:
1850
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Credit: Health, disease and remedy familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood / [George Moore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    retire from the sea to some sheltered spot inland, but not quite in a valley. As soon as the warmer air of the land precipitates its vapour in the form of mist on the sea, an inland situation will on the whole be more favourable. The sea-mist may sometimes be seen in the warmer days.of May, stretching like an ocean of silvery fleece across the channel, when, a mile inland, or on Dover Cliffs, Fairlight, or any of the Downs, the prospect is one glorious sunshine. -) I have known the thermometer as high as 72° in the shade, and in the open air, a few yards from the beach at Hastings, when the air in a boat half a mile off was 45°. It is therefore evident that an invalid, during a few minutes walk along the shore on a fine spring-day, might experience dangerously rapid and great variations of temperature. In short, the sudden changes of temperature from the strong draughts and peculiar currents and tides of air on the coast, require that a delicate person should exercise forethought and tact in the ‘choice of his perambulations, and keep his eye to the wind like a sailor. There are a few inconveniences which invalids must at first calculate on in residing near the sea. The constant murmur of the waves, which is heard particularly in the night, is often complained of as a cause of restlessness, but the ear usually gets familiar to the sound in a few days, and it then tends rather to soothe the brain, and to promote profounder sleep. The nervous headache to which most weakly persons suffering from bad blood or defective circulation are subject, is often excited by the bright and glittering
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