Download or read book The New York Journal of Medicine, and the Collateral Sciences, 1855, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint) written by Samuel Smith Purple and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New York Journal of Medicine, and the Collateral Sciences, 1855, Vol. 15 It is not the purpose of the present article to present a detailed view of the climate of California. A general examination and analysis of the meteorological observations in our possession, pertaining to the locality of Sacramento, their 'comparison, and the deductions growing out of the results thus obtained, together with such' therapeutical inferences as suggest themselves, having a more or less in timate relation to the climate, will alone be attempted. The location of the City of Sacramento, in the valley of the same name, has heretofore been described in an article upon this subject, as well as a general yet sufficiently succinct account of the topography of the valley. No further allusion is required at this time. It is scarcely possible, in a series of observations extending through a single year, to afford an infallible, or absolutely exact view of a climate. Seasons are frequently so variant, and departures from a uniform standard so great in any single, isolated year, that perfect accuracy is not attainable. In general, however, the mean temperatures of a place do not vary much; and though the mean of a series of observa tions, extended through a large number of years, might alone satisfy the demands of an exact and rigid science, the approximation will be sufficiently near to subserve the purposes of the present communication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.