The constitutional requirements for tropical climates and observations on the sequel of disease contracted in India / by Sir William Moore.

  • Moore, William.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The constitutional requirements for tropical climates and observations on the sequel of disease contracted in India / by Sir William Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    * little or no evaporation takes place from the skin; where steel and iron rust in the dryest weather, quicker than in our wettest; where in other localities and seasons the air is so dry that no moisture remains on the skin, and where confronting the hot wind is like putting one's face near a blast furnace, almost realising Hamlet's wish that solid flesh might melt, thaw, and resolve itself into dew; where at one period vegetation is luxuriant and rank, and at another period the earth is so dry, fissured, and burnt by heat, that no vegetation remains ; where imported vege- tation either dies or alters and deteriorates in cha- racter, so that it is scarcely recognisable; where- animals imported from temperate zones languish, de- generate, and often die. All in a tropical climate have certain depressing in- fluences to contend against, which are escaped to a great degree in temperate zones. These depressing influences affect the European who travels speedily from a temperate climate to a much greater extent than they affect the native, especially when the Euro- pean, as is so generally the case, neglects to study well the clime, to mould its manners to his obsequious form, and mitigate the ills he cannot shun. The natives of India, particularly those whose Aryan pro- genitors, centuries before the Christian era, gradually invaded the Indian plains from the mountainous regions of the north, are therefore to the manner born. But