Note 34 — Chapter I

The reader will consult upon this subject the able paper on Ethno-Climatology, or the Acclimatization of Man, by Dr. Jas. Hunt (‘Trans. Ethnological Soc.,’ vol. ii., New Series). I differ with the author only in suspecting that he has attached too much importance to the danger of dysentery, hill-diarrhœa, and other bowel complaints in the altitudes above the malarious tropical regions. Altitude must not be our sole guide in sanitaria and hill stations; they can be judged only by actual experience, and a height which here is healthy is there found to be distinctly the reverse.