ir%'r


t*'* 4kys


/ .r A


" the crowning objection alludingg to


,s ture theory)


" appears to cope from AMia,


land.


According to


Maydell,


vagrant


popu


over


a million


in number


quite


exempt


from


although they live,


not in Himalayas or Andes,


on a steppe one hundred feet below the sea level."


or on I
 f t ," '/


The iS


facts will


give


some


idea of


the difficulties whioh entfr


this subject of


the effect of


climate on consumption.


TAke


famous health resorts of


south of Europe, for instance


Nice," says Dr. Meryon (" London Lancet," July


1850),


natives die of phthisis than in any town in England of the saM


population." In
so rapidly fatal as


Gazette,
among


no country,


in Genoa


" volume xlvi).


natives.


says


Florence
Madeira,


Australia,


-English resort for the relief


Dr. Pollock


COInsu
to wh


consumption,


, s consnom


Naples (" Medi
mption is frequ*
ich many of tt
it is quite comms&


But, of
for the


course, in all these places we must make due allow


condition


development of


habits


phthisis.


S'


people as a factor in t:I
 S. l
 *;,


With regard to


written


now


and which


elevated regions, about which so muol.$
h are becoming so fashionable, for


away of fashion is omnipotent and


omnipresent, it is worthy:


note that in almost


not al


of them


diseases of the


piratory organs are very prevalent.


Speaking of the Periw


mountains, where


been


asserted


the, natives are atoi


entirely free from disease,
prevalent are those of the


ryngitis,
marked


pleurisy,


iams writes


" The ldtmae


respiratory organs, 8nch as em


pneumonia


adynamic


pleuro- pneumonia,


type.*


7,


auI
'4,


Diseases


 *U It hes been long observed that the inhabitants of elevMli
 dipriear to be peculiarly exempt from coobuuqmpti1a% gld,
Mabeen;mfxade of late to turn this obsenwtion to practical PinSj


etch localitits as health resortS for the
i doubtflHf the fact that the hardy y
i, us 4 who.e lives are pase d we


pure adr rad


4e


*:1'


rarely tachitd


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