Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts of the World, and on the Climates That Will Be Met Within Them.

A very broad belt of the earth’s surface is occupied by countries that may be said to possess hot climates; as they include not only those within the Tropics, but also the sub-t...

Although the main essentials of domestic sanitation have already been dealt with at some length, and incidental mention has necessarily been made of their bearing on the avoidan...

“Fever,” _i.e._, malaria, is responsible for so large a share of the sickness peculiar to tropical countries that the subject of its prevention requires especial and separate co...

The importance of attention to personal hygiene in the matter of what to eat, drink and avoid, may be judged by the fact that three of the greatest scourges of tropical life--ch...

In hot climates, as elsewhere, people are rarely in a position to exercise much choice in their selection of a habitation, as its site must usually depend on considerations of b...

The principles that should guide us in the contrivance of tropical costume may be epitomised in a single sentence. Keep the head cool and the abdomen warm:--and most of the cost...

Owing to the circumstance that it is more convenient to deal with the subject of the feeding of infants in connection with that of the prevention of infantile diarrhœa, but litt...

There is a southern proverb that, between the hours of two and four in the afternoon, only Englishmen and dogs are to be found abroad; and there is doubtless a good deal of trut...

In many hot countries Europeans of all classes pass a considerable portion of their time under canvas, and though it is not proposed to refer in any way to military operations,...

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