| Abstrakt: |
The effect of bad air upon the human system is shown in various ways, the differences depending upon the particular kind of air which causes the diseased conditions. Salubrious situations on the earth are known and recognized mainly from certain characteristics of the human inhabitants. It is true that other air breathing animals are injuriously affected by bad air, but this comparative study is not within the scope of the present paper.Many of the changes in health, and grades in constitution produced by climate upon man are well known, and those peculiarities of disease existing in the inhabitants of different atmospheric planes have not escaped observation. The practicing physician and climatologist will do well to study the effects of hills and mountains upon the human organism, for they exercise influences not to be accounted for by the chemical analysis of the air. By far the greatest number, as well |
