474 THE MOUNTAIN. 



Medical climatologists have given classifications of cli- 

 mates from their effects upon the human body ; as " Tonic" 

 or dry, bracing and exhilarating, possessing the qualities of 

 tonic medicines; "Atonic," moist, relaxing, even sedative, 

 indicated in conditions requiring those influences. There 

 are also "Irritant Climates," etc.* 



Nosological tables, or catalogues of diseases curable by 

 climates have also been given, with the connection of places 

 and their airs, with organs and their conditions. These de- 

 tails belong to the special domain of the physician, and are 

 much too extensive to attempt to recite them here. They 

 will be more fully discussed in the " Supplement to the Moun- 

 tain," which will contain an extended treatise on climate as 

 a remedy for disease, as also the special claims of the Alle- 

 ghany Mountain as a locality of great power in the cure of 

 a long list of maladies. 



It may not be amiss, in this connection, to quote a few 

 conclusions of the illustrious Drake, whose authority is un- 

 questioned. Following the declension of the malarial plain 

 north, toward the geographic line of perpetual exemption 

 from malarial diseases, he says : 



"We find, then, that in the latitude of 42 north, the topographi- 

 cal conditions which originate autumnal fevers, are nearly overcome 

 by a mean altitude of 1400 feet ; but we have previously seen that, 

 in the basin of the Kenawha, among the mountains of Virginia, at 

 an elevation of 1800 feet, Professor Rogers saw many cases of in- 

 termittent fever. This is to be ascribed to the difference of latitude, 

 that locality being about 4 farther south than the table-land in the 

 vicinity of Chautauque Lake." 



This lake is in Chautauque County, tfew York, the ex- 

 treme southwest corner of the State, bounded on the north 

 by Lake Erie, and on the south by Pennsylvania. It is a 



with the capability of immediate and ready action impressed upon it. It is a great 

 oxydizer and destroyer of the miasma arising from the decomposition of animal and 

 vegetable substances. It is colorless, possesses a peculiar odor resembling chlorine, 

 and, when diluted, cannot be distinguished from the electrical smell. Its density ia 

 said to be four times that of oxygen." SMALLWOOD. 

 * Francis, " Change of Air." 



