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NUMBER OF 



"THE CLIMATOLOGIST." 



AUGUST, 1891. 



" THE object of this JOURNAL is to promote original investi- 

 gation, to publish papers containing the observations and ex- 

 perience of physicians in this country and Europe on all matters 

 relating to CLIMATOLOGY, MINERAL SPRINGS, DIET, PREVENTIVE 

 MEDICINE, RACE, OCCUPATION, LIFE INSURANCE, AND SANITARY 

 SCIENCE and in that way to supply the means by which the 

 general practitioner and the public at large will become better 

 acquainted with the diseases of this country and Europe, and 

 better armed to meet the requirements of their prevention or 

 cure. The study of these subjects in this country is exciting 

 great and increasing interest, and all admit that, from the little 

 knowledge already possessed of its resources, possibly every 

 known combination of atmospheric condition, soil, altitude, cli- 

 mate, or mineral springs, is to be found on this continent. It is 

 confidently expected that such a. journal \v\\\ receive encourage- 

 ment and be an authority upon all questions which are included 

 in its title. 



" Original papers upon diseases of localities those incident 

 to occupation, race, or climate, the study of epidemics, the 

 questions of proper food, of the water supply, its potability 

 and distribution, matters relating to drainage and diseases de- 

 pendent on it as well as experimental studies, or laboratory 

 investigations on bacteriology, will form a prominent portion 

 of the material presented during the year, and it is to be hoped 

 that physicians of all sections of the country will send papers 

 upon these or any other subjects which will be of general in- 

 terest. 



" Special attention will also be paid to the subject of health 

 resorts, descriptions of Sanitariums with special reference to 

 their suitability to certain cases, and the proper selection ot 

 patients likely to be benefitted by them. The utmost care will 

 be taken that this JOURNAL shall assume and maintain the 

 highest scientific character. It will be absolutely independent 

 in its principles -fair towards all. It will depend for its main- 

 tenance upon the support given to it by the prcfession, as it is 

 not published in the interest of any special section or clique." 



