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EFFECTS OF CLIMATE UPON MAN By. R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN,
Written in 1829.)
Concluded from last publication.) The first effect of malaria on those who are accustomed to it, is a depression of spirits some times accompanied by excessive nervousness-list- Jessness-torpor—an acute pain agross The forehead and breast, together with oppression of breathing, the eyes become dun--the face of the sanguineous, flushed and, after a slight resistance of the nGLYDUN pod vascular systems, slumber succeeds, which if the sufferer be in a suation prolific of malaria, Almost sure to be fatal. Indeed, any instances have, occured of travellers, who have lam down such places, having boon overcome with those sleepy sensations, and nover rising again; one instance may be here adduced, which, together with the ci cumstance heretofore related of Commodora Norge and others, who slept one night on shore at Zans zibar, will be sufficiently corroborative of the apt nions advanced,
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and density that Dossesses Buch a gravity.
the atmospheres nevar risos high or travela The truth of this romark may be fully aremplifi Dr. Hunter, and several other army pra
mako and sal butter are in a great theasure
over
compt from epidemic disease, and it would be orroborative if we were enabled to whether oil or buttermen in India enjoy a like immunity from cholers,
ully in. |
ors, found that an elevation above the ground: floor of a barrack enjoys A considerabile exem
With regard to wearing a veil over the mouth. union from disease and the same observation may and nostrils, it is said that the Americans Indios.
be made respecting the lower and upper deck of a variably resort to this precaution, when their Bhip of war. Several placea in the vicinity of the
cocupations load them into the noxious lens of their Fonting and other marshes are elevated a low feet
country had the natives of India may ba seent above the level of the plain, and the inhabitants of
morning and evening with their faces enveloped the rubbed and present it great dissimilitude to
in one of the folds of their garments. those residing on the marshy soil. This observa
Whatever be the nature of the subtle and mys tion might be olted with respect to many situas
the marked difference between the Bentorious potion (inlasm), it sooms certain, by these galees and the nativos of the upper provinces of facte, that its deleteriousness is, to a great mesure, India, between the Tartars and the Chinese, &c. destroyed by high temperature, as is obvious mentally and bodily, is sufficient. During the from the most unhealthy spots being po provnouoo of the epidemic which ravaged India in 1817, the Marquess of Hastings ascribed the prowervation of the ceme division of the grand army, which he commanded in perang to having removed his encampment from the banks of the Synde river In Bandelland, to some high and dry A sergeant of this horse artillery at Dhum Dun, and in an eastonly direction. At its period it neir Calcutta, on the 7th Dec, 1888, lay downNE
also found that the cantonments at Agra, adrenently under the night air, and fill asleep hooing dry and siry, word nearly opt from the was taken up in the morning, almost bereft of epidemic but those at Mitten, being low and his eyes awelled to an extraordinary degree, und ima
near the banks of the river, muffered much from the mediately conveys to the hospital, where he soon aller expired. After tus manor have perished prevailing many of our brave, but too often thoughtless soldiers Biti sailors, who have lm down to snatch a mo- low and blthy, filled with runed buildings, and Preventives of malaria, and by which a very groat mentary reposo in unhealthy spots, with no other canopy but the skies.
It is also stated in Jamieson's valuable report of this epidemie, that the city of Saharanpure, which
and intersected by foul channels with oozy banks, suffered considerably, and that the disease hocaine checked on its approach to the high land, which proved hostile to its further propagation in that direction. This lattos roark of Jamieson's car rosponds with Humboldt's statement; viz. that 300 feet above the level of the sun is the atmost liniit of yellow fever,
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xious at noon-day; from the oficacy of fire and smoke as u preventive of its effects, and from the natives of countries, where its effects are felt in carere dogroe, guarding the respiratory organs from the inhalation of the night air, except it pass. on through a warm medium The functions of the Alain being intimately nasociated with those of the lungs, un is ovalent from the fact, that when it pors tow of the ontiole is destroyed by burns or acilds, METALS the breathing becomes proportionately laborious. may exphun the utility of anointing the surface of the body when contagious diseases provati
We shall now proceed to the most importani
influence may be exercised over the corporeul na
nro and oven the mental ondwinents of man, and animals and plants be modified to a wonderful de gree; these are, ligging canals cutting out pas. sages for stagnant waters-butting oud otherwise clearing away underwond-cutting down forests - and opening nad filling the soil. If we look to the history of the commercial establishments and calontes of European nations in every part of the world, we shall find that a salubrious climate, n healthy race of people, increase of wealth, and diffusion of the blessings of freedom and civilization, have been the sure effects of a persevading and well-directed industry.
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Every observer of the appearance of the lower class of people, residing in the vicinity of the Pon- tine, and other marshes or sickly situations, has described them as being in general characterized by a miserable, apparently old and decrepit, appear ance-withered and wallow in corporeal structure haring their abdomens swollen, their limbs execel,
Enough has perhaps been salil to evince the ingly attenuated, a leaden eye, livid complexion. shining skin, and lounging gait, and with a fatuny utility of height; and as respects distance, we of mind indicating extrémenge. The difference both shall murely sorve, that the officers and crews is mitid and body, between the inhabitants of a low, of Fley Majesty's ships who wore employed at bet, and damp region, and the people of an elevated. Walcheren, Beveland, New Oricnus, Batavia, &o. cool, and shy atmosphere, is too striking to require (with the exception of those who slept on shore)
By rerring to the works of Hippocrates, it will Sandalwood Q comment; and this may be sufficiently illustrated enjoyed a perfect nu numty of disonses, although by contrasting a Dutchunun with a Swigs. Tuled, the vessels lay at anchor within a cable's length, be found that he states the city of Abydos to have in many nations, although the language and the of the shore where so many of their brace comrades been several times depopulated by favor, &c., but that, on the draning of soma contiguous marshes, fell victims to malaria. Ineaments of the conntrainee may be common te
Respecting the other precautions -such as the the city and its vicinity became perfectly healthy. the highlander and lowlander, yet is there very
The foats recorded of Hercules may, in many bule affinity in their geajus and disposition. The smoke of wood or coal, a commous dict; the use Futar and Chiese may serve as an example, the of tobacco, and stimulants, the anoialing the body former being hoki, warlike, and independent, lovers, with some ölenginous matter, the kooping up of fires, the not venturing into the opin air before of toit, and of a ferocity approaching to brutality; the latter a cowardly, paritic, and acrile race, proner after sun-rise, and this wearing of a voil or co-chain of islands, lat, 13 day N., has been well to superstition, addicted to compliments, and extra vering over the broathing apertures a few remarks drained and cleared the result of which is, that vigant in all the littleness attending the ceremonials inay be made. The suo arising from coal-i
usta, ba traced to its having also drained and
many districts. cleared
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of behaviour. That the effects resulting to man worst, or any of the substances usually used for is not now an endemic on the island, and Alum from a residency in a marshy climate is not of recent fuel, has been found to destroy the effects of mins-penty recovery is obtained by those pursons vir
servation, uny in known from the fact, that mata. Bruce relates, that all those persons who, who suffer from ague at the adjacent phor the Greek and Latin historians ascribed the pro...” lived in smoky houses escaped a severe epidemics |
Humboldt and Ward state, that cholera, vómito® verbial stupidity of the Boontious to the humidity of and it has been observed, that cooks on board ship their climate, and that the Britons were remarkable are frequently exempt from over which affects the preto, and agues are droudfally sovera in Vern China Roots for the longest, and the Egyptians for the least, ex whole ship's company. Men who are employed Crus and the Torra Calientos, where the vegeGalingal tonded life.
Mart 190 in the occupation of making charooal or f
All the travellers who have visited the Tierras turf, inhabits the most unhealthy spots // Ming / tation is mak, danso, and luxuriagt, but that on Minole
stantly keeping fres in their houses and where they work, and by not being out of doors during the night. The Italian nauciors, when brossing the Campagna di Roma, are frequently obliged to sleep in the marshy districts, but secure themselves from any baneful consequences by having a fire made in a well-closed room (oven in summer) drinking a bottle of wino, and smoking a few is 8218.
A celebrate writer (Dr. Linl), speaking of the Portuguese antiloments in Aries, observos. the must healthy place, or the Montpolier for its pure is the town of St. Salvador, notwithstanding that it lies within six dogros af the aquatic, and on the banks of the river Clinga or Zaim, yet
from the neighbouring country being cleared of the natural woods and thickets, its inhabitants breathe a temperate and pura mur, Rouare, în a
great measure exempt from the plagues of an unhealthy climate.
The town of Kingston, in the island of St. Vincent, was found to be extremely unhealthy, on Rocount of an adjoining morass; but since the marsh has been drained, and the woods cut down. the town has been comparatively healthy. Dr Chisholm, in his Statistical Pathology of Bris tol and Clifton," so long ago hs 1805, has given several striking examples of the effects of malacia. Among many others, he states that King & ein. exposed to the exhalations from several marshy tracis is the side of the river (Toigtc), nud seve- ral small islands, which are wolloin covered with water, the consequences are, that the inhabitants are very short-lived, and after children arrivo al the age of ten or twelve years, their constitutions
the table land of Mexico, which is clearest, the Calientes of South America, are of opinion, that the years in the enjoyment of rula health, by con discuses are im known. the inhabitants of those warm and moist valleys will never be roused from the apathy and degra dation in which they have been plunged for juries; and they have remarked, that the residents of the Terras Calientes form a striking contrast with the bold and free men who mbabu the table land above them, who are so attached to their na live soil, that although the frost of a single might frequently deprives them of the whole hope of their burvest, yet they never think of descending into The squadron of Her Majesty's ships before the fertile, but thinly fohabited plains heath alluded to, which were unplayed on an extensive them, where nature showers in vain her blessings survey of the islands and rivers on the const of and her treasures, and where the labour of one man Africa, Arabia, Madagaveur, &c. where the of for two days in the work may procure the means ficors and seamen suffered considerably from the al nubsistence for a whole family for a work.
effects of malaria, ufter painful experience, at last The elects of malaria on the range of human found that their only safeguard, when exploring Nife may be illustrated by a few facts. M. Da low, swampy river, was to anchor their boats Warville says, that he has seen in the
in the middle of the stream, close well the little e dry healthy parts of America, women of sixty or
canopy of the boat, light a fire beneath it, and sleep or seventy years of age with an air of freshness, sparkling with in the heat and smoke produced by it; by those health and that it many places one person in precautions they escaped the severo fevers, ofton stands on portion of extensive clay beds, it is sine attains the age of eighty years; while on the low island of Gerlón, M. Moleau states, there are got more than five or six octogenarians in fourteen The crews of whating ships, who find a profi. thousand inhabitants. The limit of life in Switz. table but arduous employment on the sickly erland is placed by M. Da Moitre at el hty shores of Asia and Afties, frequently return to yours; while in Georgia it is stated, that white their native land without the loss of a rann, und in males born there very seldom attain the age of the most perfect health, although necessitated, in Forty, and mou rarely that of Billy years. Out of their search after whales to oil with strenuous without a change of station. This is exempli. thousant persons barn at Vienna, half of them exertions at the or for six or eight hours dailyfel by the complexion of the fahnuitants; and the to not live to be two years of age whilst in the beneath the fervid rays of a tropical sun then province of Vaud, in Switzerland, 600 out of 1,000 persons born there live to be forty-one years old At Petersburgh, in Virginia, it is said, that do white person born there has ever attained the usual middle ago, and then the body appears quite decrepit and worn down, although no severe sick nows had been endured and on the west count of Afrion, white children born there sellem attain ten years of age; Unis is strongly contrasted with the health of the people of the capital of Norway where there is it one physician among 30,000 anoderate daily allowan
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The proceding romarke sufficiently demonstrate the effects of climate and soil even on man, who, of all animals. is best capabia of defend
lf against the consequences of di loteribus elements for it cannot be denied, that in Rome. countries his mind as well as body arrives with great rapidity and but little vigous at maturity when, without a perceptible intervening perind of manhood, the corporeal structure haste equal ratio of oelerity to the grave the however, but a part of the universal thaw of nature
that whatever in rapie in its growth, i moody in in dissolution, The horse and pophr moldy Touch their height, rettega And beauty, and are short lived, while the phant and the pak respiro nim
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