Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter.
- John Hunter
- Date:
- 1796
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![i^T]R.ODUCTtON, jJ moiri,eterj Vvas fpund to rapge'jfrpni 47°' fpn-i^iCe to 58°,. at noon, in the ^month. .of Auguii y;r;> , r, * ^,The heat,-is grqateft in the: low lands along i^e,fea-coaft, on the fauth,fi4e of the iflandi f tl^^tmometjcr; in the ^months of,May, June, Jtjly,- Atiguft, and Sgp^cjinber^,ranges /rorn.85°,to 9,0“ betweep one.^nd two o’clpcjc of the afternoon, which^ is the [hotted; time of the day. . During the pther ijnont^s-^of.^the .^^eatj^the h?at is about five ^degrees lef§ in the day-time j but the difference in the.^t^apera- ture of the nights is much, more confiderable: V*-*.-* O V for, in the hot months, the thermometer feldom falls lower than 80° in the night-tinie; whereas, in December, January; February, and March, the coldefi; months in the year, it often defcends to 70”, and I once faw it as low as 69° about fun-rife, which is the coldefi time in, the twenty-four hours. Thefe ob- fervations were made in the town of King- fton-f*. ■' , ■ As you afcend the mountains, the heat diminifhes; at Stoney Hill, which is ten * Med. Comment. Edin. 1780, p. 24.8. t The thermometers ufed were made by Mr.'Ramfden, .'\nd divided according to Fahrenheit’s Icale. ‘ B a * ' miles](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24927971_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
