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Physical and medical climate and meteorology of the west coast of Africa : with valuable hints to Europeans for the preservation of health in the tropics

Title: Physical and medical climate and meteorology of the west coast of Africa : with valuable hints to Europeans for the preservation of health in the tropics / by James Africanus B. Horton, M.D. Edin.
Author: Horton, James Africanus Beale.
Publication: London : John Churchill & Sons, New Burlington Street, MDCCCLXVII. [1867]

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xix, [1], 321, [1], 39, [1] p.; 23 cm

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Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Publishers' catalogs – England – London.
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"Printed by Neill and Company, Edinburgh."--verso of title page.
Last page blank.
Publisher's catalog, 39, [1] p. at end.

Provenance (note)

with the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

The introduction -- The action of the sun upon the atmosphere ; The temperature of the air -- The effects of tropical heat on the great nervous centres, and on the vital processes of the inhabitants of tropical climates ; The interior temperature of the globe -- Elevation of the earth above the level of the ocean ; The gradual inclination of the surface and its local exposure ; the position of its mountains relative to the cardinal points -- The neighbourhood of great seas and their relative position ; Position in respect to large rivers of lakes ; Position in respect to forest, valley, and low lying land -- The geological nature of the soil ; The degree of cultivation and of population at which a country has arrived ; The degree of drainage and sewage -- Prevailing wind ; Humidity and saturation of the atmosphere ; The dew-point -- Barometric pressure ; Ozonometric observations ; Amount of cloud ; Notation of weather -- The seasons of Western Africa: General observations of the seasons ; the summer season -- The rainy season: May, June, July and August -- Harvest or autumn: September, October ; Harmattan or cold season: November, December, January -- Medical climate of Western Africa: General observations on medical climate ; Diseases of the hot season -- Diseases of the rainy season -- Diseases of the rainy season continued: Meteoric causes of yellow fever ; Governor D'Arcy's ordinance regulating Sanitary Commission, established in the river Gambia ; Diseases of the Harmattan or cold season ; Mortality and registration of Black troops and inhabitants in Western Africa -- Hints for the preservation of health by Europeans in tropical climates: General observations of tropical hygeine ; Rules for the regulation of the dress, diet, drink, exercise, sleep, bathing, and the passions ; Prevention of some tropical diseases.

Call Number

Sc Rare 551.5-H (Horton, J.A.B. Physical and medical climate...)

OCLC

14863053

Author

Horton, James Africanus Beale.

Title

Physical and medical climate and meteorology of the west coast of Africa : with valuable hints to Europeans for the preservation of health in the tropics / by James Africanus B. Horton, M.D. Edin.

Imprint

London : John Churchill & Sons, New Burlington Street, MDCCCLXVII. [1867]

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 551.5-H (accession no. B571125) with the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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John Churchill & Sons. Messrs. Churchill & Sons' publications, in medicine and the various branches of natural science ...

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Neill and Company, printers.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

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Sc Rare 551.5-H (Horton, J.A.B. Physical and medical climate...)

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