The Climate of the South of Devon, and Its Influence Upon Health: With Short Accounts of Exeter, Torquay, Babbicombe, Teignmouth ...Churchill, 1842 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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affections amongst amount appears April atmosphere autumn average barometer beds carbonaceous cent character chest chiefly cider clay climate cold colour conglomerate consequence considerable constitution cough country parishes Dartmoor Dawlish degrees deposit Devon Devonshire dew point disease district Doddiscombsleigh dropsy dyspepsia England epidemic eruption Exeter Exmouth feet felspar fever formation frequent granite grauwacke green sand Haldon Heavitree hills hornblende increase inflammation irritation June July Aug latter lime limestone London masses mean temperature mild miles months mortality nearly neighbourhood number of deaths observations occasionally occurred particularly patient period phthisis population porphyry portion present prevails proportion quantity quarry quartz rain rarely red sandstone remarkable river river Exe sandstone schist scirrhus scrofula seasons Sidmouth slate South of Devon spring strata summer surface swinepox symptoms tables Teignmouth tion town typhus usually valley Vide whole winds winter
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Стр. 113 - Sometimes the disorder comes on so gradually and insensibly, that the patient is hardly aware of its commencement. He perceives that he is sooner tired than usual, and that he is thinner than he was ; but yet he has nothing material to complain of. In process of time his appetite becomes seriously impaired; his nights are sleepless, or if he, get sleep, he is not refreshed by it. His face becomes visibly extenuated, or perhaps acquires a bloated look. His tongue is white, and he suspects that he...
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Стр. 174 - The tubes are slender; their average and common diameter is 2.5 mm. although they vary from 1 to 3 mm in diameter. Individual tubes can be traced downward for several feet; evidently they are at least 8 feet long, because they penetrate the entire 8.2-foot thick stratum, and are more abundant in the upper than in the lower part of the stratum. The tubes are the fossilized remains of roots of ancient plants that grew in Wilcox time upon the ball clay as a soil. Because their cores are filled with...
Стр. 38 - ... temperature takes from it the usual injuriousness of such a condition. The character of the spring during the early part does not materially differ from the winter, excepting that the air is less damp, and the days less rainy. Towards the close of this season north-easterly winds somewhat prevail...
Стр. 2 - The character of the climate is warm and moist, partly owing to its latitude, yet much is due to its position as regards the ocean, forming as it does a portion of a large promontory, or imperfect peninsula, projecting westward into the Atlantic, so that nearly one-half of its circumference is sea coast.
Стр. 182 - ... openings or quarries in its neighbourhood. That of Heavitree is situated about a mile and a half from Exeter on the road to Honiton. It is worked to the extent of a quarter of a mile in length, and to the depth of about 100 feet, in a plane intersecting that of the strata. The rock...