Medical climatology; or, A topographical and meteorological description of the localities resorted to in winter and summer : by invalids of various classes, both at home and abroad.

Date:
1862
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Credit: Medical climatology; or, A topographical and meteorological description of the localities resorted to in winter and summer : by invalids of various classes, both at home and abroad. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    islands. The inhabitants, however, frequently attain a great age. As a resort for invalids, the Ionian Islands are most inviting to that class who can bear vicissitudes of weather, and require bnt little inducement to draw them into the open air. In winter, although the temperature is mode- rately uniform, the changes of weather, and the almost constant humidity and frequent fogginess of the atmosphere, unfit these islands as a residence for consumptive invalids. In some varieties of bronchial affections, in the absence of profuse secretion, of dyspepsia, and in many disorders, the result of a too close application to business or study, the Ionian Islands may be visited either with a view of a pro- longed sojourn, or as part of a torn' from place to place. MALTA. This small island is situated in the Mediterranean, at a distance of sixty-two miles south-south-west from Sicily, its chief town (Valetta) being in Lat. 35° 53' 8 K, and Long. 14° 31' 2 E. The island is of an irregular oval shape, seventeen miles long and eight broad. Its scanty soil, which overlies the calcareous rock to a depth of scarcely more than eight to ten inches, is assiduously cul- tivated, and yields an abundant return for the labour bestowed upon it. The surface is generally of an undu- lating character, its loftiest elevations not exceeding 550 feet. The coast line is broken by numerous bays. The island of Gozo, north-west of Malta, is nine miles long and four and a half broad. Its surface presents a deeper, better cultivated, and comparatively more produc- tive soil than its neighbour. Valetta, the capital of Malta, is constructed upon a ridge