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south wind keeps the air warm night and day, and melts 
the snow under unfavourable, cloudy, and oppressive con- 
ditions, but as I have not known any real snow melting 
of this kind during the last two years I am unable to give 
any particulars as regards this form of melting, which is 
however not so common. 
As the conditions of the snow melting have been very 
imperfectly understood by the majority of English doctors, 
I am now trying to collect material for a more extended 
study of the question, but the few facts which I have 
mentioned support the views of many German and Swiss 
doctors of considerable practical experience, and will, I 
think, show that what must be done during the snow 
melting is a question to be decided upon the individual 
circumstances of each patient’s case, always however re- 
membering that the majority of those who have spent a 
winter in the cold of the high climates are when they go 
down to the damper air of the plain sensitive to the cold, 
and therefore it is better that they should not go to any 
place where spring weather has not fully set in, without 
being relaxing, and above all should avoid any place where 
the winter snow has not been melted away four or six weeks. 
It is often incorrectly supposed that any one who has 
been able to bear the extreme cold of a winter in the high 
climates will not feel the more moderate cold of a lower 
station. 
Wind. 
I had last year (loc. cit. p. 179) to express my regret that 
I could not find a position for my anemometer, which was 
quite satisfactory to me, and I have to say the same thing 
again now. As the hotel is more or less on the side of 
a hill and near the highest part of the road, it was most 
difficult to find a spot which was not sheltered by some 
building, and in consequence I had to place my instrument 
on a small mound where I think we may say it received no 
