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Sunshine and open air : their influence on health, with special reference to the Alpine climate / by Leonard Hill.
- Hill, Leonard, Sir, 1866-
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Sunshine and open air : their influence on health, with special reference to the Alpine climate / by Leonard Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Absorption of light, 80 Acetone-methylene blue gauge, 65 Adler, 80 ZEsculin as screen, 82 Aktino photometer, 69 Air: Alpine, 12, 13; alveolar, 16; chemical purity of, 16; con- ductivity of, 13, 14; density of, 40; dryness of, 11; dry- ing power, 22; dust, free, 4; high-altitude, 17; ionized, 5, 13, 15, 16; pathogenic mi- crobes in, 16; saturated, 20, 21; seaside, 12; specific heat of, 40; water vapour in, 26 Alkaline metals, 78 Altitude, physiological effects of, 17 Alton, 116 5; Amino-acids, 78 Angstrém, 47, 48, 59 Antibodies and ultra-violet rays, 80 Antidromal nervous impulses, 85 Antigens and ultra-violet rays, 80 Arc, carbon, 15, 54, 92, 126 Arson, 7 Atomic number, 72 Artificial pneumothorax, 3; treatment, 126 Aston, 72 Atmosphere : high and low, 5, 14; ozone in high, 15; tempera- ture of, 8; vertical currents in, 5; water vapour in, 5, 12; windless, 20 Atomic energy, 76 light Bacteria : lethal effect of, 89 ; pene- tration of, 81; rays on, 90 Bang, 90 Barcroft, 18 Barnard, J. E., 62, 68 Baths : effect on metabolism, 105 ; effect on nose and throat, 44 Bayeux, 14 Bee meter, 69, 70 Benedict, 116 Black fur, 23; gauge of radiation, 65, 68 Black bulb thermometer, 68 Blackwater fever, 87 Bloch, 83 Blood: absorption by, 82; action of light on, 87; arterial, 18; carbon dioxide in, 18 ; changes due to altitude, 18; platelets, 88; reaction of, 17, 18 Blue sky, cause of, 51 Blunt, 79 Bolometer, 62 Boone, 98 Breathing, effect of exercise on, 107 Bright’s disease, 4 Buckwheat, a sensitizer, 86 Bull, 88 Bunsen units, 63 Cadmium cell, 62 Calcium in serum, 97, 98 Callendar, 47, 48 Campbell, 89, 114 Carbon dioxide : amount in air, 16, 17; in blood, 17 ; in lungs, 16 ; in ventilation, 16; influence of breathing centre by, 16 Carotin, 96 Carriers of infection, 29, 38, 41 Cataract and sensitization, 86 Catarrh and climate, 28 Catarrh, epidemic, 32 Cathcart, 114 Cayley, 69 Cerebro-spinal fever, 33 Cervical sympathetic nerve, 94 Cheek temperature, 111, 114 Chemical irritants, 28 Chick, 96 Chicken-pox, 86 Children: ‘‘colds”’ in, 32; over- clothed, 121; susceptibility to rickets, 59 Chilling of body, experiments on, 34 Chlorophyll, 85 Chodounsky, 33 Climate ; Alpine winter, 1,13; and catarrh, 8; effect on tubercu- losis, 3; influenced by dust in air, 5,13; Mediterranean, 12; of mountains, 11, 12; of Switzerland, 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32806668_0158.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)