Note 156 — Chapter IV
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
[“The great question of acclimatisation has hitherto been treated lightly enough. ‘A firm resolution not to be conquered by a malady,’ says Malte-Brun, ‘is, in the opinion of most doctors, one of the most efficacious preventives of disease. Our body depends on our intelligence. In every climate the nerves, the muscles, the blood-vessels, in relaxing or in stretching, in dilating or in contracting, soon take the particular state which suits the degree of heat or cold which is borne by the body.’ Thus, according to this celebrated geographer, man has only to exercise his will in order to accommodate his organism to all the difficulties of a new temperature and a new climate.” H. J. C. Beavan, The Acclimatisation of Man (Social Science Review, February 21, 1863.)—Editor.]