The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic diseases, more particularly of the chest and digestive organs : comprising an account of the principal places resorted to invalids in England, the South of Europe, etc. ... With an appendix, containing a service of tables on climate / by James Clark.

  • Clark, James, Sir, 1788-1870.
Date:
1830
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Credit: The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic diseases, more particularly of the chest and digestive organs : comprising an account of the principal places resorted to invalids in England, the South of Europe, etc. ... With an appendix, containing a service of tables on climate / by James Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two months, however, and also in the spring, it has the advantage, in as far as regards warmth and shelter from north and north-east winds, of all the places frequented by invalids on the coast of Sussex. As might be expected from the low and shel- tered situation of Hastings, it will be found a favourable residence generally to invalids labouring under diseases of the chest. Young persons also disposed to these diseases, and who require to avoid exposure to the north-east winds, may pass the cold season here with advantage. But in recom- mending Hastings as a residence in both instances, it will be necessary to take into consideration the full influence of sea air; for, owing to the close manner in which this place is hemmed in on the sea by steep and high cliffs, it may be considered as having an atmosphere more completely marine than any other part of this coast. Judging from my own observation, I should con- sider the climate of Hastings as unfavourable in nervous complaints, more especially in nervous headachs connected with, or entirely dependant upon an irritated condition of the digestive organs, and, also, in cases where a disposition to apoplexy or epilepsy had been manifested. But it will be understood from what has been already stated re- specting the topographical relations of Hastings, that this effect of its climate is chiefly experienced