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'effect whatever.


cutaneous surface, and


. oolrsmTiras e OF


This morbific influence ia oftw


may be


* .*l' '^N
"*- '^ it
 as f TJ


prevented, to a greats


a malarious


region


by wearing woollen


next


the ekiia


fresh


night


morning,


especially when


the diurnal


temperature is unusually great,


which


preventive,


have, can not be


to exert any influence on marsh


Quinine,
reliable


when


one, acts


taken


as a preventive, and


by fortifying


it is a more or1w


nervous system against


pressing influences, and not through


effect on a specific poison circ


malaria,


which


the country of


office;


become
in the


to which


any supposed


ulating in the
an interesting


parlor
writer


as well
regrets


blood.


neutralisi
So much


topic in all partse
as in the doctoaf


having


obliged to devote so much space.


Rain-fall


other


Hygrometric


Conditions.


-Very


space need be devoted to rain-fall, since it is now conceded 't


in the first place,


the mere


amount


rain


year,


the winter, without a statement of its distribution over the moo


and even the days, is of


no value


, in the second place,


a certain


amount of


short


rain,


intervals


falls rapidly, and does not ree A


is beneficial


in various ways, buata


cially as one of


the best purifiers of the atmosphere, diseol


- *A


gases, and carrying down with it dust and animal and vegeta


impurities.


In some localities there is almost no precipitation


moisture (rain-fall), yet the air is constantly loaded with moi


almost to saturation.*


With


regard to


the hygrometrical


edition of the air of Florida, almost as erroneous


ideas exit'f


* "At Cannes,


" says Madden (Health Reports of Europe and AJfriaX


-mount of rain-fall is about five inches more than in London


standing this,


Cannes has incomparably a dryer climate than' 1i


number of rainy days in the former being 52, while in the latin ii


 Oftsia, a noted health resort of Sicily, has 78 inoahe in
"ther fe fower rainyuor cloudy days there. than i'n A:. t a
.*Ip or from the fact that otxii afll ts4 ( 4


m oi prd ipititio are


w iwa


but4 q


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