Popular guide to the use of the Bath waters : with hints on climate, lodgings, hotels, &c., full instructions for bathing and drinking the waters, with special chapters on the new massage douche baths, thermal vapour treatment, and massage in its relation to balneology / by J.G. Douglas Kerr.

  • Kerr, J. G. Douglas.
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[1888]
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Credit: Popular guide to the use of the Bath waters : with hints on climate, lodgings, hotels, &c., full instructions for bathing and drinking the waters, with special chapters on the new massage douche baths, thermal vapour treatment, and massage in its relation to balneology / by J.G. Douglas Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ The mean temperature of summer varies from 6oQ to 63°.5, the range of the mean being 3°*5. “The mean temperature of autumn varies from 48°.5 to 52°.?, the range of the mean being 4^.2. “ The mean temperature of winter varies from 38°. I to 46°.3, the range of the mean being 8°.2.” Quoting from the same author, we learn the following interesting facts :— “ The mean monthly range, or the mean difference between the absolute highest and the absolute lowest temperature in each month, is least in February : the months of November, December, January and March showing no very marked difference among themselves in this respect, but the range in all is greater than that in February by three degrees or more. A considerable rise of the range occurs in April and May ; in which months, scarcely different in this respect from each other, the mean monthly range attains its maximum. There is very little difference also in the three summer months of June, July and August—in none of which the range is much less than that of April and May. In the two autumnal months of September and October the range is seen to decline further from the maximum ; and in November the decline is still more marked, the range in this and in the other winter months being spoken of above. “ The mean daily range, or the mean difference between the highest and lowest temperature in each The mean monthly range The mean daily range.