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Page 35 - ODE TO THE NORTHEAST WIND Welcome, wild Northeaster! Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee. Welcome, black Northeaster! O'er the German foam; O'er the Danish moorlands, From thy frozen home. Tired we are of summer, Tired of gaudy glare, Showers soft and steaming, Hot and breathless air. Tired of listless dreaming, Through the lazy day: Jovial wind of winter Turn us out to play! Sweep the...
Page 40 - Medical opinion in Massachusetts, as deduced from the written statements of resident physicians in 183 towns, tends strongly to prove, though perhaps not affording perfect proof of , the existence of a law in the development of consumption in Massachusetts, which law has for its central idea, that dampness of the soil of any township or locality is intimately connected, and probably as cause and effect, with the prevalence of consumption in that township or locality.
Page 35 - There is a condition of body intermediate between sickness and health, but much nearer the former than the latter, to which I am unable to give a satisfactory name. It is daily and hourly felt by tens of thousands in this metropolis (London) and throughout the empire ; but I do not know that it has ever been described.
Page 3 - Florida, the far-south member of the Atlantic Coast division, is perhaps the most general trucking community in the United States. A long, comparatively narrow peninsula, protected by the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the west and the Atlantic Ocean on the east, with the Gulf Stream rounding its southern end and flowing northward in close proximity to its coast line, it possesses a very equable climate. Although Florida is not wholly free from frosts and freezes, such conditions are rare....
Page 32 - These tables are very instructive, and entirely negative the statements so often made of late years, that there is any special immunity from Phthisis in the mountain regions of Switzerland. They show that a certain proportion of the general population in the higher mountain regions die, as elsewhere, from Phthisis, the rate depending on occupations in life.
Page 1 - We may begin the ascent of the Alps, for instance, in the midst of warm vineyards, and pass through a succession of oaks, sweet chestnuts, and beeches, till we gain the elevation of the more hardy pines and stunted birches, and tread on pastures fringed by borders of perpetual snow. At the elevation of...
Page 18 - I turned back again, and sailed down by the coast of that land towards the Equinoctiall (ever with intent to find the said passage to India) and came to that part of this firme land which is now called Florida...
Page 14 - ... the temperature, dryness of the air, and the violence of the winds. Speaking generally, those climates will be the most suitable in which the air is not moist, the temperature never very high nor low, but uniformly sustained, and where the easterly winds do not greatly prevail.
Page 19 - Tnmlin's plantation."* This statement is corroborated by Mr. MF Stephenson in an article on ancient mounds in Georgia, which was published in the Smithsonian Report for 1870. I am not aware that Indian relics of gold have been found in Florida in modern times ; but mention is made of a small gold bell obtained in 1527 by the party of the unfortunate Pamphilo de Narvaez, immediately after his landing in Florida, It was discovered in one of the large houses (Inthios).
Page 28 - Florida is wholly peculiar. Possessing an insular temperature not less equable and salubrious in winter than that afforded by the south of Europe, it will be seen that invalids requiring a mild winter residence, have gone to foreign lands in search of what might have been found at home. Florida, therefore, merits the attention of physicians...