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Forry gives the annual number of fair days as 809 for a ied


of years, and


on the Northern Lakes 117.


'On the oM d of


Florida the number is 250.


A moist climate is not neceuarily


bad for consumptives, though it is generally so.


On the Nile,


though


most


cases do welr at


Thebes


Cairo, others do


better at Alexandria.


The climate of Lipna is very dry,


consumption is very common, while on the mountains back- of


Lima the air is always damp and


rain common, yet consump-


tion is rare.
and moisture


Cold and


moisture are always bad, but warmthi


may or may not be so.


The question as to the


influence of large bodies of water on the production and prog-


ress of phthisis
contemplating


1s 80


important, especially to those physicians


adoption of Florida


for their patients, that, at the


risk of


as a winter residence


extending' the limits of


this paper unduly, I quote a very instructive table from Forry,'


with an abstract of his remarks on the same, and his


prelimi-


nary observations:
 "Having already


demonstrated


that


regions


. United States, on the same parallels of latitude,
teams of climate very diverse in character, viz.-1.


bordering


inland


on the


seas;


ocean


Those


Those
remote


under
from


such


present sys-
The regions
influence of
controlling


powers-it will


seen


that these


laws


climate


main-


an intimate


diseases.


relation


It seems


with


etiology


well-established


pulmonary
r that the


prevalence of


mate,


increases


catarrk and


decreases


inf-uenza,


in each


in proportion


system
as the


seasons


are contracted, thus


maintaining an


unvarying relation


with


the extreme range of the
seasons."


thermometer as connected with the


" The


following


table


. presents,


a condensed


form,


so far as regards the


oatarral


forms of


pulmonic


lesions,


the results of the quarterly


sick-reports of forty-five perma-


nent ports, arranged


classes,


comprising a


period


year :


 The Climate of the United State, and its Endemic Influeau, besd
bhidy on the Reoords of the Medieal Department and A4Jutut-Genuaus.


Ofao United State Army. 1849."


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