Man : the general principles of medical climatology and their application to the climates of the south-east and south-west of France / by Sir Alexander Taylor ; translated from the French, printed in the Transactions of the Scientific Congress of France, 1873 ; edited by the Syndical Commission of Pau.

  • Taylor, Alexander, 1800-1879.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Man : the general principles of medical climatology and their application to the climates of the south-east and south-west of France / by Sir Alexander Taylor ; translated from the French, printed in the Transactions of the Scientific Congress of France, 1873 ; edited by the Syndical Commission of Pau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    by the Mistral which blows from the north-west, and still more from easterly winds which begin in March and continue to the end of April This same state of weather is more or less injuriously felt in all the south-eastern stations bordering on the Mediter- ranean. At Rome, again, where the temperature is 3° higher than at Pau, the Tramontana blows with a severity almost equalling the Mistral, while at the same season in Pau the weather is mild and sedative from the almost total absence of wind and from other atmospheric circumstances peculiar to the climate, which will be, by-and-bye, meteorologically accounted for. We may also observe that the quantity of rain indicated by the rain-gauge as having fallen in any one place does not necessarily determine the cha- racter of the climate as to humidity. This is remarkably the case with Pau, where the rain-gauge and the hygrometer are much at variance, not only absolutely in so far as Pau is concerned, but relatively to other places. There are some circumstances, although familiar, which we shall give as illustrations of the peculiar absence of free communicable damp in the atmosphere at Pau. Although considerably more rain falls in Pau than in London, yet from the absorbent nature of the soil, and from some electric state of the atmosphere, ladies, even during a continuance of rainy weather, find that their hair, a living hygro- meter highly sensitive to an overcharged state of the atmosphere, retains the curl much better than in England. Another familiar proof of the deficiency