Health resorts and their uses : being vacation studies in various health resorts / by I. Burney Yeo.

  • Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Health resorts and their uses : being vacation studies in various health resorts / by I. Burney Yeo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    HEALTH RESORTS AND THEIR USES. CHAPTER I. SEA OR MOUNTAIN. A STUDY OF THE ACTION OF SEA AND MOUNTAIN AIR. The results of recent investigations as to the relative influence and value of sea and mountain climates as remedial and invigorating agencies are of much interest. The restorative properties of sea air have long been fully appreciated, although regular and periodical migration to the seashore is a custom of modern origin. The popularity of mountain health resorts is, however, of quite recent date, and much has still to be learnt from careful observation and experi- ment as to the exact nature of the influences at work in them, and the precise limits of their application. This is not a question of narrow professional import, but it is one of those practical physiological studies upon which educated persons may desire, and may be expected, to form just and correct ideas. It is, I believe, a somewhat prevalent notion that sea and mountain air are widely different in their mode of action ; that they are, as it were, the extremes of climatic influences. This, however, is not the case. B