The ancient and modern history of Nice : comprehending an account of the foundation of Marseilles : to which are prefixed descriptive observations on the nature, produce, and climate of the territory of the former city, and its adjoining towns : with an introduction, containing hints of advice to invalids, who, with the hope of arresting the progress of the disease, seek the renovating influuence of the salubrious climes / by I. B. Davis.

  • Davis, John Bunnell, 1780-1824.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The ancient and modern history of Nice : comprehending an account of the foundation of Marseilles : to which are prefixed descriptive observations on the nature, produce, and climate of the territory of the former city, and its adjoining towns : with an introduction, containing hints of advice to invalids, who, with the hope of arresting the progress of the disease, seek the renovating influuence of the salubrious climes / by I. B. Davis. 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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    Alps, springs of water are also less abundant than in former years. It is obvious that trees retain water upon them a long time, and that their roots, ramifying in many directions, form small openings in the earth, through which the rain is admitted, and then conducted from fibre to fibre, until it is thoroughly imbibed. These apertures are reservoirs for the water, and, ill reality, admit no inconsiderable quantity. If there wei^ nothing to impede its progress on the ' declivities of hills, it would fall in torrents to the bottom, and there rush into the great streams. We judge of the salubrity of a country from the nature of the vapours and exhalations which form the bulk of the atmosphere designed for our constant respiration, and for the preservation and growth of every being of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. These particles, put into motion by some Subtle agent, prove injurious or salutary to the constitution, as they happen to be more or less diffused and acted upon by the meteors. Nothing is perhaps so susceptible of modification as the air: at one time it is thick, and charged