Hastings considered as a resort for invalids : with tables, illustrative of its temperature, salubrity, and the general character of the climate, showing its suitability in pulmonary and other diseases : also, directions for the choice of a residence, and hints as to diet, regimen, bathing, etc. / by James Mackness.

  • Mackness, James, 1804-1851.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Hastings considered as a resort for invalids : with tables, illustrative of its temperature, salubrity, and the general character of the climate, showing its suitability in pulmonary and other diseases : also, directions for the choice of a residence, and hints as to diet, regimen, bathing, etc. / by James Mackness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    impressed with surrounding objects; and the art of feeling interested in all that passes before the eye is one of no little importance in repelling disease. As the rambler rests himself, perhaps near the edge of some precipitous cliff, where “ the murmuring surge That on the unnumber’d idle pebbles chafes Cannot be heard so high,” he may watch the poor shrimp-boy plying his daily avocation, or the sturdy fisherman preparing for his arduous labours. But to return from this digression. The dryness of the soil, and the absence of humidity in the atmosphere, are not the only advantages of this particular formation. It is well known that where a soil is very retentive, and particularly where the vegetation is luxuriant, the aqueous vapour, con- stantly arising, is loaded with the remains of dead animal and vegetable matter, highly injurious to health, and the exciting cause of many of the most fatal diseases to which the human body is liable. This malaria, as it is called, has depopulated some of the fairest portions of the habitable globe. In the classic land of Italy, for example, with its bright and beauteous sky, whole districts—rich in the produc- tion of all that might administer to the wants of
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