The climate of the South of France : and its varieties most suitable for invalids ; with remarks on Italian and other winter stations / by Charles Theodore Williams.

  • Williams, Charles Theodore, 1838-1912.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The climate of the South of France : and its varieties most suitable for invalids ; with remarks on Italian and other winter stations / by Charles Theodore Williams. 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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    twice a week in the public gardens; and at each per- formance upwards of 1000 chairs were occupied by visitors and invalids listening to the music. Balls were held in January on board the American men- of-war anchored at Villafranca, and were attended by numbers of ladies and gentlemen from Nice, who were conveyed to and from the ships in open boats. What are the causes of this great superiority in mean temperature? Let us examine the sources of warmth in the British and French mild climates respectively. In the case of the British the chief source is un- doubtedly the Gulf stream; which, although it raises the temperature of these islands, and, as Dr. Tyndall has well shown, prevents the formation of gigantic glaciers, has the disadvantage of saturating our at- mosphere with moisture, and of adding considerably to the amount of rainfall. In the south of France the chief sources of its superior warmth are :— 1st. The sun pouring down his warm rays, un- checked in their effects by chill blasts, and rarely ob- scured by clouds or mist, from sunrise to sunset. The patient arriving in the south of France in winter, sees to his surprise the dust lying on the road; the hills and valleys not bare, as in the land he has lately left,