The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-09-08

iliOIC W. dtIh OPI b0dh 1Al
summer The able writer on Con-
sumption and Climate, Dr. Bennett
states, "According to the Register
Generals Reports Of the British
Isles and the mortality register all
over the world, the healthiest win.
ters are those that have the highest
temperatures. The years OF great
est mortality are those in which eX-
tremes of cold in the winter are
reached. In temperate climates the
deadliest seasons are those of great
est cold. Extreme heat and ex-
treme cold not only interfere with
the equilibrium of functional activity,
throwing strain Oh some of the
vital functions of animal life to their
serious risk and danger, but necessi-
tates modes of existence detrim entail
to the healthy performance OF these
functions. Thus in very cold
climates such as st. Moritz, in he
Engandine. and 81. Pau, in Mime.
sofa, United States, which have been
recommended Of late for phthisls in
winter as we'll as summer, invalids
have TO live in winter for by tar the
greater part fthe twenty-four hours
in badly ventilated rooms. When
they go out they have to undergo
the transition to temperature
thirty or forty or even more degrees
less than that in which they live dur
ing the greater part Of the. twenty
tour hours. Such confinement, such
transitions. even much less marked
ones, constantly give rise III all
Northern countries IN winter, to IN
tiammatory affections of :he mucous
membranes of the air passages, to
pneumonia and to pleurisy, and that
in the healthiest members OF the
community If it is so with the
healthy, how can we expect those to
resist such influences who are al.
ready diseased, who have morbid
deposits, infiammatory, catarrhal
scrotulous, tubercular in their lungs.
softened or not? How can those
who have already local pneumonias,
local pleurisies, expect to withstand
their pernicious influences Z? More
over, they do not live in the pure
air they asceLded to reach, but in an
atmosphere vitiated by stove heat
ing, by their own respirations, and
by that of their companions
DR.. Day, an English physician
calculating from about $4,000 per
sons over SO years of age, deter
mined that the deaths in January
were nearly twice as great as in July
This statement confirms the opinion
of another distinguished statistician
"That waves OF heat are waves OF
life, and waves of cold are waves o.
DEATH" With these and hundred SINH
lar warnings before us, remarks DR.
Brinton, I'VE are safe i'll saying that
in many cases, entire relaxation from
business, and two or three winters
in warm climate, about the age O
sixty will add years to life" The
Importance OF escaping the rlgors
and dangers OF "a Northern climate
is being appreciated by the aged as
is evidenced by the thousands O
persons who annually visit Florida.
, IN my winter visits to this State
from 1865 TO 1873, | found the ma
jority OF the visitors to be invalids
tourists and sportsmen, but my OBJ
servations during tue past and seve
raj preceding winters establish the
fact, that the majority who visits this
State are advanced i'll years and mi
CRATE with the birds to land where
'The gentle winds, sweet and passionat,
woOer,
Kisses the blushing leaf''
Climacteric decay is obviously the
concatenated phenomena arising
from that exhaustion OF the vita
energies which takes place at a NOR,
or less advanced age, in consequence
of the cares, turmolls and physica
exertions dependent on existing
states OF society, particularly among
the middle classes. The exhaustion
mal,ltesting itself especially in the
functions which are most intimately
related 10 and concerned in the per
, petuation OF the vital endowment O
, the frame. AS this decay OF tn,
!, vital energies-this breaking up o
: the constitution, as it is commonl,
!. *Treaiise ON Pulmonary Consumption J II
Bennett, NJ. D., 1879, p. 10.