An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology : intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners. Together with detached essays, on the study of physic, on classification, on chemical affinities, on animal chemistry, on the blood, on the medical effects of climates, on the circulation, and on palpitation / by Thomas Young.

Date:: 1823

Credit: An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology : intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners. Together with detached essays, on the study of physic, on classification, on chemical affinities, on animal chemistry, on the blood, on the medical effects of climates, on the circulation, and on palpitation / by Thomas Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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of the continents which surround them, at least as far as we can judge by their affording a climate of that descriptiou, which seems to be the most desirable ; for actual experience will not allow us to be too confident of obtaining success, even from a residence in these. Dr. Domeier informs us, in his very interesting account of the island of Malta, that the thermometer seldom varies here more than 6° in the 24 hours, or stands below 51°, even in the depth of winter; while in Lisbon he has seen ice, and both ice and snow in Naples ; besides that, in these two cities, the difference between day and night often amounts to 20°. If an invalid leaves England in the middle of August, the voyage lasts about a month, and is often of itself highly beneficial, so that he arrives at Malta, in time to be fully prepared to be further benefited by the mild winter; it appears, however, from the more particular account which Dr. Domeier else- where gives of the temperature, that it continues throughout October rather higher than is altogether desirable, being seldom below 70° throughout that month ; and in a country where there is scarcely any visible foliage, walls occupying universally the place of hedges, this cannot be a matter of perfect indifference. [As far as I have been able to judge from a very super- ficial comparison, in the course of a single summer, I should prefer Pisa or Leghorn, to any other parts of Italy : Naples is supposed to have an atmosphere too sulfureous for weak lungs ; and to be liable to keen winds in the winter : Rome has perhaps too many temptations to imprudent exposure in visiting its curiosities : otherwise it has many advantages for a winter’s residence . but I should suppose it more liable to currents of wind than Pisa; and if Pisa were too near the mountains, it might easily be exchanged for Leghorn, which I found much cooller than Pisa in hot weather, and which would probably be milder in cold. I also found that Rome was much hotter than Naples in the summer, and I should expect it to be at least as much colder in winter.]

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