Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University
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1859.] Climate to the Consumptive, Sc. 741Bain in Inches.At Fort Orford, the monthly means are as follows : March,8.24 inches; Apiil, 5.64 inches; May, 5.24 inches ; the meanfor the entire season is 19.12 inches. At Fort Vancouver, asfollows: March, 3.79 inches; April, 2.74 inches ; May,2.75inches, with a mean for the season of 9.28 inches. At FortDallas, as follows: March, 1.07 inches; April, 0.99 inches;May, 0.57 inches; <strong>and</strong> of the season, 2.63 inches.As we advance up the Pacific coast, the duration of the wetseason increases to such an extent,that the dry season cannot,strictly speaking, be said to commence until the summer monthsare reached ;<strong>and</strong> if we should continue our advance to KussianAmerica, <strong>and</strong> thereabouts, so great an encroachment would befound to be made upon the latter as to obliterate it, this beinga region of almost constant precipitation. The amount of precipitationalso increases rapidly with the latitude ; the meanquantity for the spring at San Diego, is 2.74 inches; at SanFrancisco, 8.81 inches; <strong>and</strong> at Fort Orford, 19.12 inches; anincrease of 16.38 inches in ten degrees of latitude, which isabout 1.63 inches to every degree of latitude. As we recedefrom the coast, the degree of precipitation declines, that atFort Vancouver for the season, being only one-half, <strong>and</strong> acrossthe Cascade Range, the proportion is reduced to about onesevenththat at Fort Orford.ARTICLEXXVI.Fracture of the Neck of the Scapula. By L. A. Dugas, M. D.,Professor of Surgery in the <strong>Medical</strong> College of <strong>Georgia</strong>,(Read before the <strong>Medical</strong> Society of the State of <strong>Georgia</strong>, atthe meeting in April, <strong>and</strong> ordered to be printed.)At the annual meeting of this Society in 1857, I had the honorof reading a paper " Upon Fractures of the Scapula, with Oases,&c." which was ordered to be published. It accordingly appearedin the pages of the <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Surgical</strong> <strong>Journal</strong>in June of that year, <strong>and</strong> although well received by theprofession in general, I am sorry to say that it did not altogetherescape the notice of one of those writers of " Biblio-
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