 The ground water is presumed to affect health by rendering the soil above it moist, either by evaporation or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to predispose to rheumatism, catarrh,...  Report - Page 276by New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1873
...above it moist, either by evaporation or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to...some way which is not clear, a moist soil produces an unfavourable effect on the lungs ; at least in a number of English towns, which have been sewered,... | |
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1878 - 733 pages
...above it moist, either by evaporation or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to...some way which is not clear, a moist soil produces an unfavourable effect on the lungs : at least in a number of English towns, which have been sewered,... | |
 | 1880
...such a soil, to catarrhs and rheumatism ; and second, by aiding the evolution of organic emanations. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to predispose to rheumatism, catarrh and neuralgia." f A sandy soil at a suitable elevation to ensure perfect drainage without an impervious layer of clay... | |
 | Rhode Island. State Board of Health - 1881
...above it moist, either by evaporation or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to...that most persons feel healthier on a dry soil." In order to keep the level of the sub-soil water below a certain deptli artificial channels should be... | |
 | William Paul Gerhard - 1882 - 104 pages
...it moist, either by evaporation 213 or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to...that most persons feel healthier on a dry soil." In order to keep the level of the sub-soil water below a certain depth artificial channels should be provided... | |
 | William Paul Gerhard - 1882 - 205 pages
...above it moist, either by evaporation or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to...that most persons feel healthier on a dry soil." In order to keep the level of the subsoil water below a certain depth artificial channels should be provided,... | |
 | 1882
...above it moist, either by evaporation or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to...that most persons feel healthier on a dry soil." In order to keep the level of the sub; soil water below a certain depth artificial channels should be... | |
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1883
...above it moist, either by evaporation or capillary attraction, or by alternate wettings and dryings. A moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to...experience that most persons feel healthier on a dry soil. 1 Op. cit., Bd. ii., p. 98. 2 Lectures on State Medicine, by F. de Chaumont (Smith & Elder), p. 91,... | |
 | 1885
...more probably they are low forms of life which grow and propagate in these conditions. An unnaturally moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to predispose to rheumatism, catarrhal affections and neuralgia, and in some, way which is not clear, a iMui-i soil produces an... | |
 | Indiana State Board of Health - 1885
...more probably they are low forms of life which grow and propagate in these conditions. An unnaturally moist soil is cold, and is generally believed to predispose to rheumatism, catarrhal affections and neuralgia, and in some way which is not clear, a moist soil produces an unfavorable... | |
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