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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    reap from these currents of air the important advan- tage which Dr. Kidd points out as arising from agitation of the atmosphere ; (especially when aided by those alterations in its volume which follow upon every change of temperature,) namely, the removal or prevention, of the accumulation of local impu- rities.'*' Doubtless the southerly winds derive some of their increase of warmth from passing over so large an extent of water, as the temperature of this latter element, during the winter months in these latitudes, is considerably above that of the atmo- sphere. The author of the “ Curative Influence of the Southern Coast” attributes the mildness of the climate of Hastings, in part, to another cause; he says:—“ The increased temperature of our southern and western coasts has also been thought to be influenced by the agency of the stream of warm water which flows towards Europe from the gulf of Mexico, occasioned by a material difference between the level of the gulf and that of the Atlantic Ocean. An accumulation of heat from this source was par- ticularly observed quite across the Atlantic, as far * “ Adaptation of External Nature to tlie Physical Condition of Man,” pp. 133 and 152.
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