The Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society (Volume 5) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: while it wonld appear that man was able to accommodate himself to a great variety of changes, there was no doubt that some places afforded a greater immunity than others. Being in the habit of meeting Moravian missionaries from the ungenial and inhospitable coast of Labrador, and others from the West Indies, there was no doubt that the northern climate, cold and wretched as it was, produced far less hurtful effects than the more sunny southern one. As regarded the question of sending patients away for change of air, before this was done some estimation should be formed of the patient's means; for it was a cruel thing to propose expensive changes when it was altogether impossible that they could be afforded. Where money was no object, it would be found very desirable to move the patient from one place to another, with the direction to make a prolonged stay at any place that was found to be agreeing well. The question of fatigue in making these changes should not be overlooked. He could not conclude without congratulating the Society on getting two such good Papers as Dr. Madden's on Australia, and Dr. Campbell's on Pau, for the Annals. Dr. Madden.?If his Paper were honoured with a place in the Annals of the Society, he would change the words in the title, from that of "The Climate of Australia," to that of " The Climate of Victoria, Australia." This was suggested to him by the remarks of Drs. Yeldham and Hale. The climate of New Zealand was totally different from that of the climate upon which he had addressed them; while again, New Zealand itself differed very much in different situations. As, for example, the observations of Dr. Yeldham refer to a beautiful nook, most beautifully situated; while those of Dr. Hale to a place with a by no means genial climate. Dr. Hale's remark...