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valids.


With regard


these variations of temperature, Dr.


Southgate remarks,


"Rarely is the change seo


great as to imi-


prees the individual in fair health, uncomfortably, and the in-


valid has


invariably sufficient warning to guard


against it."


Surgeon-General Lawson, United States Army, speaking from


an extended personal experience,
ida is remarkably equable, and


"The climate of Flor-


proverbially agreeable, being


subject


fewer


atmospheric variations, and its atmospheric


ranges much less, than


any other part of


United


States


except a portion of the coast of California."
faults it may have, the climate of Florida, in


With whatever
comparison with


most others, stands


preeminent.


I have watched


with some


anxiety, the


cases of


those


more


advanced stages of


consumption,


when the diurnal


temperature ranged,


as it did


last winter, from December 5th to December 16th,


as follows:


780, 820, 82, 83, 840, 81


, 820, 810, 81


, as I heard them


complaining


from day


day, and


was


gratified,


when


mercury showed


their


690 at


expressions of


the same


relief, and


manner and appearance.


hours


to see


This was an


on the 16th, to hear


their entire change of
unusual series of days


for Florida.in winter;
tion is quite common,


but a high temperature of shorter dnra-


the cool, sometimes


cold,


change


which succeeds, so far from causing colds and pneumonic com-


plications, common


under


circumstances


at the


North,


generally acts like a cold


shower-bath, and braces up the sys-


tern.


The occasional *wood- fires, around


which


invalids


so cozily congregate on the cool days, are


never unacceptable


as a pleasant change, and


contrast


favorably with


more


uniform and debilitating heat and monotony of more tropical


climates.


Nothing, in fact,


is so distasteful


injurious to


most invalids as monotony.


The writer has always believed


in the traditional


idea that when


phthisis


had arrived at


stage of softening, a removal to a warm climate is not a bene-


fioial change, that a sudden and rapid


increase of the trouble


is pretty sure


follow.


A study of


such


cases


w


has not tended to establish the correctness of this idea.
 0


inter
 On


the contrary, the progress of the disease wa slower, if not en-


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