The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic diseases : more particularly of the chest and digestive organs: comprising an account of the principal places resorted to by invalids in England and the south of Europe ... With an appendix, containing a series of tables on climate / By James Clark.

  • Clark, James, Sir, 1788-1870.
Date:
1829
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Credit: The influence of climate in the prevention and cure of chronic diseases : more particularly of the chest and digestive organs: comprising an account of the principal places resorted to by invalids in England and the south of Europe ... With an appendix, containing a series of tables on climate / By James Clark. 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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    FLORENCE. Though Florence is one of the most agreeable residences in Italy, it is far fron being n favour- able climate for an invalid, and, least of all, for an invalid disposed to consumption. Its situation among the lower Apennines, by which it is almost encircled, and the summits of which are covered with snow during the winter, together with its full exposure to the current of the valley of the Arno, renders Florence subject to sudden transitions of temperature, and to cold piercing winds during the winter and spring. Fogs, too, are more common here than at most parts of southern Italy. The winter temperature is upon the whole low, while that of the summer is high. The mean annual temperature is only 1^° below that of Rome; but this is owing to the great heat of summer at Florence; for the winter is only 4° warmer than that of London, and is nearly of the same temperature as the winter at Penzance. The difference between the mean temperature of the warmest and coldest months is 36°, which is one degree more than that of Provence. Never- theless, although the daily, monthly, and annual range of temperature are very great, the climate is not more variable or unsteady from day to day than that of Rome, and is less so than that of Naples. The annual range of atmospheric pres-