The effect of climate on tuberculous disease : being, with additions, the essay for which the Fiske Fund Prize was awarded. With an appendix of corroborative observations and notices of several places of winter resort.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The effect of climate on tuberculous disease : being, with additions, the essay for which the Fiske Fund Prize was awarded. With an appendix of corroborative observations and notices of several places of winter resort. 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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    exemption from these, and there he will not be dis- appointed. From January 17th to the 25th, be- tween Thebes and Assouan, the uppermost town in Egypt, the lowest temperature at night ranges from 63° to 69°; highest temperature by day from 68° to 72°; sunshine every day, firmament blazing with stars; no evening chills. At Thebes, the head-quarters of Upper Egypt, the day temperature, from the middle of January to the middle of February, ranges from 68° to 76°; the same as at Cairo in the first week in March. Cairo possesses a dense population of 200,000 souls. The streets are narrow; the houses lofty, the air, though dry, is less so than in the Desert. The climate may be considered as rather sedative as compared with the more exciting climate of Upper Egypt. According to Dr. Clot-Bey, pulmonary consump- tion is almost unknown among the natives, and only attacks the negroes, who come from the still hotter climate of Abyssinia and Nubia. M. Priiner con- siders that principal reason why the Nubians become consumptive in Egypt, is the change in their habits, from a nomadic, unfettered life, to a greater or less degree of domesticity. It should be observed, also, that the valley of the Nile is more humid than the air of the Desert, or of Nubia, and that the negroes are mostly employed as slaves. Mr. Rhind observes that the mean temperature of November at Cairo is about the same as that of