On the climate of Worthing : its remedial influence in disease, especially of the lungs / by Walter Goodyer Barker.
- Barker, Walter Goodyer.
- Date:
- 1867
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the climate of Worthing : its remedial influence in disease, especially of the lungs / by Walter Goodyer Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![There are, however, other coast residences, doubtless, equally appropriate for the summer, whereas the sheltered places adapted for the ivinter are very few, and there is one point on which Worthing stands unrivalled, viz., the extent of its exercising ground. From the sea to the hills the country is a perfect level, and invalids are enabled to take a great variety of rides and drives, should their health permit, without passing into a different atmosphere. There are many places so pent up as to present no variety in this respect, without encountering almost another climate. Nor is this the only advantage of this state of things, for they are also enabled to avoid, to use the words of Dr. Cotton, the daily sight of others more advanced in the same disease, which very often tells sadly on the spirits. The country, ] also, between the sea and the hills, which, as before stated, extends to about a mile and a half, and a mile to the north of the town, and the absence, therefore, of reflected heat, renders it equally appropriate as a residence throughout the year, a circumstance of great im,-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24756076_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
