The science and practice of medicine . aluable than these to medical literature. That map has reduced to a scale suited to this handbook, and thus liberally permitsme to use it in illustration. The most important works or monographs which havebeen published on this subject are Miihrys Outlines of Noso-Geoffrajjhy, in two vol-umes ; and Boudins Traite de Geographic et de Statistique Medicates, et des MaladiesEndemiques, Paris, 1857, 2 vols. 8vo.; a paper on Acclimation by Dr. J. C. Nott,in a work entitled The Indigenous Races of the Earth; Sir Alexander Tullochs ArmyStatistics; Marsh
The science and practice of medicine . aluable than these to medical literature. That map has reduced to a scale suited to this handbook, and thus liberally permitsme to use it in illustration. The most important works or monographs which havebeen published on this subject are Miihrys Outlines of Noso-Geoffrajjhy, in two vol-umes ; and Boudins Traite de Geographic et de Statistique Medicates, et des MaladiesEndemiques, Paris, 1857, 2 vols. 8vo.; a paper on Acclimation by Dr. J. C. Nott,in a work entitled The Indigenous Races of the Earth; Sir Alexander Tullochs ArmyStatistics; Marshalls Sketch of the Geographical Distribution of Diseases, in theEdinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. xxxviii, p. 330, and vol. xliv, p. 28;Dr. A. S. Thomsons Thesis on the Influence of Climate on the Health and Mortality oftlie Inhabitants of the Different Regions of the Globe, Edinburgh, 1837; and Sir Ran-ald Martins work on the Influence of Tropical Climate, are the sources from whichthe outline here given has been GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE-REALMS. 1031 Geographical Distribution of Disease-Realms.—As the physiologicalconditions of plants and animals vary according to different degreesof latitude, or rather with the different lines of equal temperatureand moisture north and south of the equator, so do the pathologicalcharacters of diseases differ; and races of men are influenced as tohealth in proportion as they migrate from the land of their is the ascertained facts in meteoroloffv and climatology of ourglobe which will help to explain the geographical limits of particu-lar diseases, and their regulated distribution, according to atmos-pheric temperature and moisture, the density and electricity of theair, and the vegetation with which they are surrounded. Suchcauses determine some of the laws by which diseases may be geo-graphically distributed; but other concurrent causes must also betaken into account in considering the special dise
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