Memoirs of Portugal, historical and medical / [William Thomas].

  • Thomas, William
Date:
1819
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Credit: Memoirs of Portugal, historical and medical / [William Thomas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mid-day; for the rains had not began, and the steep ascents through the city fatigued a stranger much, and checked his ardour for inquiry. The mornings were damp and cold, and in the even- ings the fogs, especially in the lower part of the city, near the Tagus, very great, and seemed as ill-calculated for the consumptive or asthmatic, as the banks of the Thames in England; but this observation may apply to cities and large towns In general, as unavoidably collecting effluvia, which destroy the natural and wholesome elasti- city of the atmosphere, which renders the climate of this Peninsula so desirable. It is not, therefore, to the capital of Lisbon | that the consumptive or asthmatic can repair with any prospect of ameliorating their suffermgs, but on the heights above, westward of that city, the atmosphere preserves its salutary state ; and there are, in the different villages and quintd of that direction, accommodations very suitable for such valetudinarians, and where, if climate can effect their purpose, they may confidently hope to re- establish their health. These situations are far enough removed from the city, and the wind which sweep the great western Atlantic, render the air extremely soft