1 1 2 jin Essay on the medical Effects of Climates. 



some situations preferable to others, for some individuals 

 only, labouring under a given disease, as asthma; which i^ 

 sometimes induced by the atmosphere of cities, and some- 

 times of the countrv ; and which is occasionally miticated 

 by a residence in places having no marked distinctions from 

 such as are less favourable to it, as Kensington, and per- 

 haps some others. 



In the hotter seasons, there are few diseases, and few 

 constitutions, which would require a climate milder than 

 our own: in the colder, an increase of the facility of cir- 

 culation, which heat appears to afford, may often be bene- 

 ficial, partly perhaps as exciting perspiration, and partly as 

 preventing too great a congestion of blood in the internal 

 parts of the body. The mean temperature of the six winter 

 months is therefore the first point of comparison, that re- 

 quires our attention, and such a comparison may easily be 

 derived from the registers, which are usually kept in cir- 

 cumstances nearly similar. 



From October to Mqrck, 



London, R. S. 1790-4 43'S*' 



Edinburgh 40*4 



Dawlish, Sir W. W. M, S. 1794 (Lond. 44'1<'). 45-3 



Ilfracombe, without doubt incorrect (55) 



Paris 41*2 



Lisbon 55 "5 



Malta, Domeier 63 



Madeira, Gourlav. (S.W. aspect, M.) 63 



Bermudas, M. S'. R. S. 1 790 68 

 Jamaica, Botanic garden at Kingston, Clarke, Dune, 



med. comm. vii, 369 74-5 



From November to March, 

 London, 1808-9 42-6* 



Penzance, I8OS-9, Stirling, at 10, or about 1** 



above the mean 48*1 



From January to March. 



London, 1809 43-1° (Jan. 37'9° 



Glasgow, 180p, Stirling, at 10 40'3 33-1 



Penzance, I8O9, Stirling, at 10 48-5 46-7 (Dec.43'7°). 



London, 1790-4, 8 or 7 and 2 41-6 39-1 



Sidmouth, 18dO,M. S. R. S. 



Bands 41-7 42'3) 



February and March. 

 London, 1803, 7 and 2 41-5'' 



Clifton, 1803, 8 and 3. Carrick 42-5 



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