The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden.

  • Madden, Thomas More, 1838-1902.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to for some hours, to the great alarm of the Neapolitan pas- sengers. These fogs have not, however, the same depressing and injurious effects as ours, but are rather a thick warm haze, possessing singular refractive powers, magnifying and altering surrounding objects ,to a surprising extent, and occasionally giving rise to the celebrated spectral illusion of the Fata Morgana. The nights are generally cold, and the quantity of dew which falls after sunset is sufficienb to compensate for the want of rain; this should warn the invalid to avoid exposure to the night air. Whether the climate of Palermo be suited or not for con- sumptive patients, is a disputed question. But it cannot, I think, be doubted, that during the winter it is in some respects superior to Naples for such invalids. Towards the commencement of spring, however, cold and harsh winds predominate; and I know of two cases within my own practice that proved fatal here at this season, in both of which the sufferers had improved in health during the preceding winter at Malaga. I would recommend the climate of Palermo to the majority of dyspeptic and hypochondriacal patients, and, in fine, to nearly the same class of invalids to whom I stated the climate of Naples would probably be of service.