AND PERSONALITY 



the Weather," 1 which we quote (reproductions of maps 

 come from Volume I entitled "The Foot Print of Ascle- 

 pius"), refers to ulcer of the stomach and the duodenum 



Kentucky -8.6 

 6.4-6.02 

 5.7 

 4.3-4.06 



FIG. 38. Gastric ulcer (American mortality). (Reproduced from William F. 

 Petersen, M.D., " The Patient and the Weather"} 



as a "distinctly northern disease," which rarely occurs in 

 the tropics. He points out that certain types of individuals, 

 the autonomically more unstable ones, are predisposed to 

 ulcer and that the ulcer will develop more often if such 

 individuals live in the region of storm tracks. 



Referring to the mortality map revealing the high rates of 



1 "The Patient and the Weather," Edwards Bros., Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 

 1938. 



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