A winter in the West Indies and Florida : containing general observations upon modes of travelling, manners and customs, climates and productions, with a particular description of St. Croix, Trinidad de Cuba, Havana, Key West, and St. Augustine, as places of resort for northern invalids / by an invalid.

Date:
1839
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Credit: A winter in the West Indies and Florida : containing general observations upon modes of travelling, manners and customs, climates and productions, with a particular description of St. Croix, Trinidad de Cuba, Havana, Key West, and St. Augustine, as places of resort for northern invalids / by an invalid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    regions of the southern States furnish a pretty good summer residence for invalids; but in the winter, the whole of our southern States are similar to, or worse than November and April in New-York, subject to dampness, cold, and sudden changes, making, on the whole, about as bad a place as could be ima- gined for invalids. The cold is not quite as severe ; but as the preparation for it is not as good, it is as much realized as at the north. When it is considered that these States are situated to the north of the Tropic, and that consequently the wind must be almost con- stantly blowing from the cold regions of the north during winter, sweeping nearly a whole continent, and bearing onward its accumu- lated vapours, is it at all surprising that inva- lids should fare worse here than almost any where else ? The southern people are open- ing their eyes upon this subject; and notwith- standing the general idea at the north, that there is no consumption at the south, nume- rous patients afflicted, or at least threatened with that complaint, are now sent from thence to the West Indies> or to the south of Europe, annually. It is only between the Tropics that the requisite uniformity of temperature can be