The weather and health of London / Alexander Buchan.

Date:
[1881]
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Credit: The weather and health of London / Alexander Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    during the continuance of the last six plagues. The manner in which the plague, as a death-producer, obeyed the weather is striking, and full of interest. It did so exactly in the way in which wo have soon bowel complaints to be influenced by weather. The curve of mor- tality for the plague bears no resemblance whatever to that for typhus, or indeed to any disease except bowel complaints. The fact that the progress of deaths from plague in relation to weather resembles so closely the corresponding progress of deaths from bowel complaints, raises the question whether there may not bo a closer alliance between them than has been suspeeted. If we are correct in regarding such a question as a fair outcome of this investigation of the relations of weather and health, it is evident that such investigations may occasion- ally point to a seat of morbid processes which have been cloaked by prominent phenomena, apparently of a primary, but in reality of a secondary character. [A. B.] LONDON: PRINTED BT WILLIAM CLOWES ANT) SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.