MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS – CLIMATIC INFLUENCES
Today, many unnatural influences undermine our health and we often lack enough strength and energy to put up with the vicissitudes of the climate. To be exact, many of us are much more sensitive than were earlier generations. This should not surprise us if we look at our modern circumstances, yet it is more difficult to understand why the influence of climate can be so strange and inexplicable in its effect. Perhaps the laws governing climate and weather may still elude us despite scientific and meteorological progress.
On a visit to Sri Lanka I had the opportunity to make an extraordinary discovery in connection with the climate and its miraculous effect on us. The case in question concerned a nurse who had suffered from severe asthma attacks in her native Australia. The hot and humid climate of Colombo should, on all counts, have aggravated her condition but, instead, it had such a favourable influence that her asthma disappeared altogether. This change in her condition was in complete contrast to the usual experience with the disease, since dry, warm climates, particularly mountain and desert climates, generally have the best curative effect, or at least help to alleviate it. However, when this nurse visits her brother in the dry and cooler air in the higher altitude of the island, her health problem returns immediately. Once back on the hot and humid coastland, the trouble is as if blown away. For this reason the nurse has been living in the low-lying area for some years without as much as a twinge of her asthmatic problem.
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